Is there anything we can do in the meantime? How does it sort the channels so we can work around it?

I tried this but it didn't work: I deleted all the channels in the admin panel and then re-entered them all in alphabetical order and the channels page still displayed them out of order (not admin panel, but on the main page).

Which suprised me since not only are they in alphabetical order they are also in numeric order, yet they appear out of order on the site. Is there a way of working around this until the patch comes out?