Minecraft 26.2 Pre-Release 3

Today we are shipping the third pre-release for 26.2, with a few changes and fixes!

With today's pre-release we're reverting a fix that patched an exploit, known as "Attribute Swapping", for unrelated reasons. Please note that this does not mean "Attribute Swapping" is a supported functionality - it will instead be fixed in a future snapshot.

Happy Mining!

Changes

Sulfur Cube mob

• The block inside a Sulfur Cube now only aligns vertically with the block grid when the Sulfur Cube is invisible
• The squish animation will no longer be played when a Sulfur Cube has a block inside

UI

• The tooltip for the "Exclusive Fullscreen" video setting now mentions that Adaptive Sync (Nvidia G-Sync, AMD FreeSync) should work when it is enabled and will not work when it is disabled

Telemetry

New property in World Events

The following change was missing from the changelog for 26.2 Pre-Release 2:

• server_session_id a unique identifier for a multiplayer session, shared across all players in that session

Fixed bugs in 26.2 Pre-Release 3

• MC-268008 - Players' sneaking state can sometimes desync
• MC-301325 - Menu music starts for a brief moment during the creation of a new world
• MC-307713 - The noxious_gas_08 particle texture has a resolution of 16x15
• MC-307794 - Sulfur cubes with absorbed primed TNT cannot be hit with spears
• MC-307822 - Geysers are less effective on players riding other entities
• MC-307860 - The animation of the dark overlay in the advancements screen is slower on lower framerates
• MC-307884 - Characters in the Unicode font have uneven gaps between them
• MC-307899 - Adding large animated textures to atlases causes the Vulkan rendering backend to run out of memory
• MC-307916 - Explosions caused by sulfur cubes with absorbed TNT do not drop every destroyed block
• MC-307969 - Log spam when attempting to render a monster spawner in Peaceful difficulty
• MC-308036 - Attempting to send a friend request to yourself silently fails with no user feedback
• MC-308042 - CTRL+NUM within the friends menu requires the buttons to be focused in order to function, unlike other menus
• MC-308065 - When placing a bed, the head part takes an extra frame to appear
• MC-308092 - Disconnecting from the network on the friends screen and exiting the game causes the JVM to crash
• MC-308107 - The border around the text under the listed friends in the friends menu disappears when pressing Enter and exiting the link confirmation screen
• MC-308133 - Geysers take away boats' horizontal momentum
• MC-308152 - Hitting sulfur cubes that are hanging in mid air near the top now causes them to gain a lot more height
• MC-308245 - Partially transparent flower textures produce ghosting artifacts when mipmapped
• MC-308426 - Setting a movement key bind and the "Debug Modifier" key bind to the same key lets you move while an inventory is open
• MC-308436 - Blocks absorbed by small sulfur cubes are displayed incorrectly
• MC-308448 - The block outline on banners is white
• MC-308475 - The depth clear value is ignored in GlCommandEncoder.createRenderPass()
• MC-308476 - The timeout passed into glClientWaitSync is in milliseconds instead of nanoseconds
• MC-308477 - The vertex buffer slot is hardcoded to 0 in VulkanRenderPass.drawMultipleIndexed()
• MC-308484 - VulkanRenderPass: scissor is never set when renderArea is null
• MC-308533 - JVM crash when two shaders fail to compile when using Vulkan
• MC-308537 - The game can crash due to certain race conditions in multiplayer
• MC-308541 - You can still swap the blocks inside of a sulfur cube whilst their TNT is about to explode

Get the Pre-Release

Pre-Releases are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the Pre-Release, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Testing versions can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

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