Clouds Fliter - Photoshop 2023 vs Photoshop 2024

I am using Photoshop 2024 (v25.11) under macOS 13.6.9 on an Intel iMac with an AMD Graphics Card.

The clouds filter is producing unexpected results and error messages.

I can also duplicate this error on a Windows 11 system running the same version of Photoshop.

Something has changed in the lastest release of the Clouds filter that comes with Photoshop 2024 (aka v25.x).

I have a number of Photoshop actions which rely on the Clouds filter and they have all been failing with a message saying: "Could not complete the command because the selected area is empty."

They ran without issue under previous versions of Photoshop (2023, 2022, 2021 all tested recently)

On a lark, I decided to try copying the 2023 version of the Clouds filter and replacing the newer one that came with Photoshop 2024.

Much to my amazement, it worked perfectly and all the actions that relied on that filter are working again.

Can anybody enighten me as to what changed in the update? This is an OLD filter that has been around for ages. Worked great under ALL prior versions until 25.x. But now fails spectacularly in a number of situations.

Any guidance would be appreciated. I would rather use the "stock" version that comes with Ps 2024 instead of using the 2023 version bolted on to the new application. But since it is a show-stopper bug for those actions, I'll need this work around for the time being.