A DESCRIPTION OF THE REGRESSION :
A JFrame has a JMenuItem (e.g. 'Project') under a JMenu (e.g. 'File'). The menu item has a mnemonic (e.g. 'p'). Upon selection, the menu item opens a JDialog containing a JTextfield.

When selecting the JMenuItem via the mnemonic, the Key_Pressed KeyEvent is consumed but subsequent Key_Typed and Key_Released KeyEvents are passed to the dialog's textfield, i.e. a 'p' appears in the textfield.

REPRODUCIBLE TESTCASE OR STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
When the following code is running, if you type "Alt-f", then "p", the dialog pops up with a 'p' in the textfield. If you click through the menu or change the JDialog to a JFrame, it acts fine (i.e. the textfield is empty).

Sample Program:

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
 
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
 
public class DemoCode extends JDialog {

public DemoCode(JFrame owner) {
super(owner,true);
this.add(new JTextField(15));
this.pack();
this.setVisible(true);
}
 
public static void main(String[] args) {
final JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
JMenu fileMenu = new JMenu("File");
fileMenu.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_F);
JMenuItem projectMenuItem = new JMenuItem("Project", KeyEvent.VK_P);

projectMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
new DemoCode(frame);
}
});

fileMenu.add(projectMenuItem);
menuBar.add(fileMenu);
frame.setJMenuBar(menuBar);

frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}

RELEASE LAST WORKED:
5.0 Update 6

RELEASE TEST FAILS:
mustang-b72

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
When selecting the menuitem through the mnemonic, the JDialog should pop up with an empty textfield.
ACTUAL -
Instead, selecting the menuitem through the mnemonic pops up the JDialog with the mnemonic entered in the textfield.