PaneFooter NavigationViewItem causing crash in SDK 1.5

[p2pbsh]

Describe the bug

Clicking on an icon for a NavigationViewItem within the PaneFooter area now causes an invalid range xaml exception after updating to SDK 1.5.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Issue can be observed on the WinUI 3 Gallery app, please see attached screen grab.
2. WinUI 3 Gallery app now crashes, as also observed on my own app.

Expected behavior

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Screenshots

NuGet package version

WinUI 3 - Windows App SDK 1.5.0: 1.5.240227000

Windows version

Windows 10 (21H2): Build 19044

Additional context

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[jaimecbernardo]

We found this crash while trying to update WinAppSDK to 1.5 as well in PowerToys.

We currently have a workaround:
microsoft/PowerToys@6ca19a5

But would prefer if we could keep using a NavigationView.PaneFooter like before instead of NavigationView.FooterMenuItems, since NavigationView.FooterMenuItems will behave as a selectable part of the NavView, which we don't intend here:

("Welcome to PowerToys" is a button that opens another window. "Image Resizer" should've kept being selected even after we press "Welcome to PowerToys")

[p2pbsh]

We currently have a workaround: [microsoft/PowerToys@6ca19a5]

Thanks for the workaround, will give that a go.