Partial refresh of menu in customizer not working?

WordPress 4.5 supposedly enables live refresh of the menu in the customizer, though I cannot get it to work.

If I reorder the menu (in customizer) I see no changes until I perform a manual refresh. However, if I click the Menu Locations checkbox to disable the menu, and again to re-enable, the screen does refresh. Though doing that saves the menu – which is not ideal. Or is that the intended functionality?

Clicking save and publish does not trigger a refresh either. Since other changes in customizer are shown in real time, this seems inconsistent.

Has anyone gotten this to work?

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Selective refresh is only for the items that are selected to cause auto refresh in customizer as explained here:

Selective Refresh in the Customizer

and here:

Implementing Selective Refresh Support for Widgets

So if the theme developer haven’t included this support then you might not see it refresh automatically on save and publish of menu items.

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