I can also confirm that this problem has been resolved for me as of a couple of weeks ago, I've been running 16.04 for a year now with this problem and using the nm-cli work-around until now:
network-manager 1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
I can also confirm that this problem has been resolved for me as of a couple of weeks ago, I've been running 16.04 for a year now with this problem and using the nm-cli work-around until now:
network-manager 1.2.6-0ubuntu0. 16.04.1