Mojang has announced the release of Minecraft 1.8.1 pre-release 3, a new update that fixes "even more issues." Of course, that's a pretty vague statement, so here are the patch notes, courtesy of Mojang.
- [Bug MC-1279] – Slow (Choppy) Rotating Beacon Block
- [Bug MC-12013] – Experience Orbs invisible for one second right after spawning
- [Bug MC-46670] – Withers trapped in a barrier box attacks barriers, killing it
- [Bug MC-55661] – Animals don't teleport to Player when target is air block
- [Bug MC-58908] – /help for /worldborder not updated.
- [Bug MC-61610] – Bedrock at Y0 has wood log in it at x0 y0 z0.
- [Bug MC-67437] – Lightning gives AI to Witches and Zombie Pigman that were originally Pigs and Villagers that had NoAI set to 1
- [Bug MC-71973] – Tab list headers and footers stay even when rejoining a diferent server
- [Bug MC-72806] – When using /stop server executes the shutdown sequence twice (and hangs if players are online)
- [Bug MC-73123] – Entity's Lose Scoreboard Scores when in unloaded Chunk
Earlier this week, Mojang's Nathan Adams referenced this pre-release, indicating that this may be the last one before the official release of 1.8.1.
Minecraft's 1.8 update, "The Bountiful Update," was released last month after 300 days in development. The result was "many, many changes" consisting of both new features, large game structure changes, and performance enhancements.
