Kwallet no longer opens on login

After update, kwallet no longer opens on login, even if password was supplied at login screen, causing issues in autostarting apps relying on it, due to ksecretd crashing with coredump. The issue seems to be related to KDE bug 524522, but that is as far as I got.

Mod edit: added link to KDE bug report

Bug has been marked as resolved via KDE Bug 482819, apparently new version of QCA was released.