To reproduce:
Start runtime/toys HelloHTMLEditor
Type some text
Select alignment or bold the text

Notice the toolbar works but the state is not being updated

This seems to be the changeset that is causing this issue
changeset: 14605:30a6cc860ac5
user: David Grieve <david.grieve@oracle.com>
date: Thu Sep 29 16:16:09 2011 -0400
summary: RT-16672: expunge stale references from cach on get, put and remove