This will definitely not comes in official binary releases before the next release (not the one being prepared right now unless I missed something @cory.quammen ). So, this is indeed 6 month / 1 year.
That being said, as soon as the updates happens, you will be able to download a ParaView nightly containing the fix.
In order to make the update happen faster, you can contact Kitware for support, see this:
Finally, you can also build ParaView and VisitBridge yourself, against a more revent version of Visit.