wp_dropdown_categories broken with 2.0.4.5

My theme (Karma) has a widget that displays a dropdown list of post categories but after updating to v 2.0.4.5 of this plugin the dropdown list was replaced with a label “Select category”. I have tested a number of permutations of WordPress versions, theme versions and plugin versions and the consistent factor is that 2.0.4.5 breaks the dropdown. (WordPress versions tested: 4.1.4 and 4.2.1; theme versions tested 4.0.4 and 4.3; plugin versions tested 2.0.4.3 and 2.0.4.5).

I also tested this in Twenty-Fifteen and created a new page template where the dropdown works with 2.0.4.3 but fails with 2.0.4.5.

My categories are very simple in structure: A, B as parent categories and category B has six child categories ie
A
B
-1
-2
etc

At the moment I have amended our site so that the widget no longer displays a dropdown list of categories so as to avoid users reporting it as an issue.

The page template for 2015 is

<?php
/**
* Template Name: Category list
*/
?>
 <h1>Drop down list test</h1>
<?php
$cat_args['show_option_none'] = _e('Select Category','truethemes_localize');
wp_dropdown_categories(apply_filters('widget_categories_dropdown_args', $cat_args));
?>
<script type='text/javascript'>
/* <![CDATA[ */
	var dropdown = document.getElementById("cat");
	function onCatChange() {
		if ( dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value > 0 ) {
			location.href = "<?php echo home_url(); ?>/?cat="+dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value;
		}
	}
	dropdown.onchange = onCatChange;
/* ]]> */
</script>

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