The pre-release is here! Possibly one of the most extensive updates in the game's history, 1.9 comes not only with a huge list of features, but a huge number of total bugfixes over the course of its development. Are you ready to see it in all its glory?
The full release of 1.9 is expected to happen on Thursday, February 25th, 2016.
Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, it will end up in your soup!
To get the pre-release, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the dropdown at the bottom left corner of the launcher. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (See the “new profile” dialog).
Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.
Cross-platform server jar: Minecraft server jar