Jeb recently tweeted that 1.8 will most likely not be released tomorrow (9/13/11), but an update to the pre-release that's currently in circulation was highly likely. Mojang wants to make sure this release is the best it can be, and is continuing to squelch bugs even as they fine-tune the features.
Players who are still looking for bugs in the 1.8 should make sure to submit or update bugs they find here, so Mojang can facilitate a smooth transition to 1.8!
CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!! iv noticed allot of black chucks and i noticed the pre release not realy but some what owned his pc you gus should make it so it saves on ram and writes on ram so its faster
I don't get why they even bother with a date at all. It seems clear that it's difficult to get it out on the day they said they would. They should just go back to the 'soon' system. At least that was easier.
I'm hoping they will let out another pre-release with more bugfixes, so the bug hunting can continue. As longa s I get my "fix" it'll all be good. Glad Mojang is committed to turning out a high quality product, instead of releasing broken games (like other unnamed companies...)
Lol, it's not like we can't wait for 1.8. People are upset because Mojang keeps setting release dates, and none of them ever come out. It was set to come ou today; now we know for a fact it won't be released tomorrow either. And it didn't come out onFriday. While none of these were official release dates, it is irritating to be seeing delay after day. If they're going to announce a possible release date do it within a realistic amount of time, rather than leading the whole community on by the nose saying 'it'll be tomorrow, no, no, tomorrow, the next day guys!" I can wait for the patch, easily. It's merely the fact they keep saying it's going to be ready and it's no where near ready that's annoying.
Another bug cropped up when trying to use bonemeal in the nether on a tree sapling:
C:\Users\Ian\Apps>java -Xmx5G -Xms5G -cp Minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFra
me
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Setting user: Iyeru, <<snipped Random ID Info>>
WARNING: Found unknown Windows version: Windows 7
Attempting to use default windows plug-in.
Loading: net.java.games.input.DirectAndRawInputEnvironmentPlugin
New max size: 484
New max size: 784
New max size: 1444
New max size: 4096
New max size: 4356
Starting up SoundSystem...
Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
(The LWJGL binding of OpenAL. For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.or
g)
OpenAL initialized.
Toggling dimension!!
java.lang.NullPointerException
at nt.b(SourceFile:94)
at abf.<init>(SourceFile:27)
at ly.e(SourceFile:58)
at ly.c(SourceFile:75)
at nt.c(SourceFile:55)
at pp.b(SourceFile:65)
at qn.n(SourceFile:2743)
at qn.b(SourceFile:93)
at bv.a(SourceFile:177)
at i.a(SourceFile:1183)
at iv.a(SourceFile:866)
at iv.b(SourceFile:754)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:716)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Stopping!
x for notch.
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