Minecraft 26.2 Snapshot 2

Here is a surprise second snapshot for 26.2! It fixes some serious issues and crashes of the previous one released earlier this week.

Happy mining!

Changes

Performance Improvements

• Upgrading certain worlds from before 26.1 can now be faster

Technical Changes

• The fps F3 screen entry will now report which type of present mode is used (e.g. mailbox or fifo relaxed), as opposed to just vsync

Fixed bugs in 26.2 Snapshot 2

• MC-306840 - Dolphins still drown themselves when no players are nearby
• MC-307286 - The game process does not terminate after exiting the game
• MC-307296 - Launching the game with an incompatible resource pack that modifies core shaders causes the game to softlock
• MC-307311 - Core shaders only load after restart when using Vulkan
• MC-307320 - Vulkan prevents the game from opening and crashes some GPUs
• MC-307349 - The game crashes before opening
• MC-307383 - The "Exclusive Fullscreen" setting does not work with the Vulkan rendering backend

Get the Snapshot

Snapshots are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the Snapshot, 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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