UIStatusBarStyleLightContent for Window title with SDK 3.5.x

Prior to SDK 3.5.0, in tiapp.xml I used the below to set statusBar elements including Window title to white.

<key>UIStatusBarStyle</key>
<string>UIStatusBarStyleLightContent</string>
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>

As of SDK 3.5.0, with the same configuration, the Window title stays black. This looks really awful and with a dark colored navbar the window title isn't readable. I used the Titanium Classic Default Project to reproduce.

I opened a bug report for this, but in the meantime, does anyone have a workaround?