Apply function in hy does not work anymore

check.hy

(defn blah [foo &optional bar]
  (print foo)
  (print bar))


(try
 ;; this does not work in Hy-0.11
 (apply blah [1] {"bar" 2})
 (except [e Exception]
   (print '(apply blah [1] {"bar" 2}) "does not work, throwing:" e)))

(try
 ;; this does not work in Hy-0.11 
(apply blah [] {"foo" 1 "bar" 2})
 (except [e Exception]
   (print '(apply blah [] {"foo" 1 "bar" 2}) "does not work, throwing:" e)))

(try
 ;; this - does in Hy-0.11 but don't in Hy-0.10
 (blah 1 :bar 2)
 (except [e Exception]
   (print '(blah 1 :bar 2) "does not work, throwing:" e)))

shell-output.txt

[+|art@art-osx4:~/projects/sprinter]% hy -v
hy 0.10.1
[+|art@art-osx4:~/projects/sprinter]% hy check.hy
1
2
1
2
(u'blah' 1L u'\ufdd0:bar' 2L) does not work, throwing: blah() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)
[+|art@art-osx4:~/projects/sprinter]%
[+|art@art-osx4:~/projects/sprinter]%
[+|art@art-osx4:~/projects/sprinter]% env/bin/hy -v
hy 0.11.0
[+|art@art-osx4:~/projects/sprinter]% env/bin/hy check.hy
('apply' 'blah' [1] {'bar' 2}) does not work, throwing: blah() missing 1 required positional argument: 'foo'
('apply' 'blah' [] {'foo' 1 'bar' 2}) does not work, throwing: blah() missing 1 required positional argument: 'foo'
1
2