The Player View Distance patch has been screwing with the configured world view distance.
The world a player was created in would set the players view distance, which would be locked to that distance.
Then switching worlds would not give you an updated view distance.
This then caused issues with what view distance the player should have in the chunk map and did not send chunks to the client correctly during movement.
This patch has now been changed to use a -1 default for "default" and will not override view distance until someone has actually used the API to change it.
Aikar
Zach Brown