New features:
- New mob: Cactus cow
- New mob: Bat
- Ability to use right-click instead of shift-click
- Touch controls
- New item: Splash potions
- New item: Furnace minecart
- New item: Chest minecart
- New block: Mob heads
- New block: Magma block
- Mob breeding
- Mobs follow the player holding their food
- Adventure game mode
- New minecart physics
- Creative inventory categories and searching
    - Includes a page number
    - Removed quick command buttons
- Charged creeper
- Bubble columns for magma blocks and soul sand
- New enchantment: Frost walker
- New enchantment: Depth strider
- New command: "clone"
- New command: "summon"
- New command: "setBlock"
- New command: "say"
- New command: "cls"
- New command: "clear"
- New game rule: "doMobLoot"
- New item data tags: "canDestroy" and "canPlaceOn"
- New achievement: Breed two animals
- New achievement: Enchant an item
- Flowing water pushes items
- Beds can be dyed different colors
- Drawback animation for throwable items
- Eat animation
- Death animations
- Sleep animation
- Hurt frames on mobs
- Setting and key binding (F1) to show and hide the GUI
- Endermen idle sound effects
- Cacti can spawn when using bone meal - Suggested by AnimalJamLol828
- Sneaking past minecarts will no longer push them
- Command history is retained when switching worlds
- Button that resets key bindings to the default settings
- Upload date is now shown when viewing a skin
- Fishing now has a chance to provide sand, coral, and clay
 
Bug fixes:
- Carpet can be crafted again
- Non-numerical seeds no longer generate the same world
- Worlds no longer generate with large nonterminating lakes
- Worlds no longer can generate with a ridiculous amount of iron ore
- Sprinting up and down stairs no longer causes damage
- Exiting a minecart on a slope properly resets the player's rotation
- Arrows, spears, and shurikens now trigger pressure plates - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Enchanting a book no longer just gives Unbreaking 1-4 - Thanks Jey Savage
- Lure enchantment now works - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Strength 2 potion no longer has the same effect as Strength 1 - Thanks Carlos Petit
- Regeneration+ and Weakness+ potions can now be brewed - Thanks Carlos Petit
- Weakness+ potion now applies the weakness effect - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Damage dealt by bows is now affected by Power instead of Punch - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Unbreakable works on armor again - Thanks Savage Necrosis
- Rain sound is no longer awful and has correct volume levels
- Fire resistance effect now protects from fire
- Clay no longer drop both the block and the item with silk touch - Thanks Savage Necrosis
- Clay blocks are no longer affected by fortune
- Ender chests now share contents between dimensions (it will now use only the overworld ender chest)
- Portal frame no longer causes errors while being mined - Thanks Carlos Petit
- Skeletons no longer shoot themselves while walking - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Killing mobs with arrows now counts as a player kill - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Enchanting now takes the exact number of experience levels shown - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Leather armor no longer repairs itself when dyed a different color
- Lily pad no longer glitches or duplicates
- Blocks can no longer be placed on falling sand entities
- Falling sand is now less likely to override blocks
- Arrows shot with an Infinity bow can no longer be picked up - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Bone shurikens now give the proper item when picked up - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Mooshrooms now give mushroom soup when clicked on with a bowl
- Fire loads on blocks properly
- Lightning looks and acts properly - Thanks iliektortelz
- The player is no longer ignored by mobs when crouching - Thanks Crystal Snow
- Carrot on a stick now loses durability - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Dragon scale armor can now be repaired
- Sticky pistons are properly removed when mined while extended - Thanks Yeeee
- Sticky pistons can no longer retract water - Thanks Yeeee
- Sticky pistons properly update redstone when retracting a block
- TNT no longer freezes when exploding beds and pistons
- Liquids now replace existing flows with lower levels
- Hoe in dispenser works again
- mobGriefing for creepers properly matches gamerule by default
- Name tags no longer extend mob hitboxes
- Balloons properly enter the inventory when the hotbar is full - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Potions in the creative inventory now show their effects - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Only one item can be renamed in the anvil at once
- Healing crystals drop when mined
- Silk touch now works on mob spawners
- Long grass can be obtained by shears
- Obsidian, bedrock stairs, bedrock slabs, and portal frames no longer break to explosions
- Hostile mobs can no longer appear in peaceful
- "Hallow" and "replace" methods of the fill command behave properly
- Items can no longer be placed in the anvil output
- Cacti no longer grows new pieces next to solid blocks
- Flint and steel, fishing rod, bow, and armor no longer lose durability when mining blocks - Thanks Carlos Petit
- Furnace, iron bars, and some stairs and slabs properly require a pickaxe to mine - Thanks Carlos Petit
- Pumpkin and jack o' lantern can no longer be placed in any armor slot. They ain't no boots - Thanks HydraKiller90
- Improved functionality of redstone placed below powered rails
- Reduced number of seeds that spawn the player in a skyhold - Thanks Doggy1232
- Second tier healing and harming potions are now named with "II" instead of "2"
- Ender chest can now be closed while dragging an item
- Fixed rare issue where some loot chests were unbreakable until opened - Thanks Injinji
- Corrected the hitbox of enchanted items in the hotbar - Thanks Brendan887 and TheTopazRobot
- The area where the command console could not be clicked on decided to vanish
- Minecarts, rafts, experience orbs, and liquids now pause with the game
- Achievements list now shows proper game mode and cheat warnings
- Lights turn on in more cases
- Giving a potion with commands with a space in the name works properly
- Screenshot keybinding saves properly
- Fixed various small command parsing issues
- Fixed "Download default skin" button from upload skin menu - Thanks Manakle
- Rabbit's foot graphic is no longer blurry - Thanks TheTopazRobot
- Sheep no longer spontaneously die
 
Tweaks:
- Zombie pigmen drop netherwart in the nether instead of the nethereye
- Squid now take damage when out of water
- The player is no longer pushed by water when flying
- Choosing a game mode when making a world also sets cheats automatically
- Command history increased from 10 to 100 commands
- Many blocks will no longer place in invalid locations
- Containers and the crafting table now close when you are too far away
- Desert shrubs and grass can now be placed on coarse dirt
- Mushrooms can now be placed on coarse dirt and wood
- Cacti can be placed next to more types of non-solid blocks
- Thrown snowballs are saved when the world is closed
- Rain no longer converts lava to obsidian and acid to cobblestone
- Spiders are now one block tall - Thanks Andy Liu
- Tamed wolves follow the player more closely
- Tweaked how to orient stairs and slabs
- Increased brightness of rain particles
- Topaz ore can now only be broken by an iron pickaxe and above
- Sneak and down keys are different bindings - Thanks Aw7some Griffininjadie
- Updated social media links on main menu
- Snow golems make throwing sound
- Spear damage reduced from 5 to 3
- Wooden and stone sword base damage reduced by 1; iron by .5; and gold increased by .5
- The hotbar slot change sound plays in more situations
- Improved issue with sticking to and climbing up walls
- Improved camera smoothness with the player and the clouds
- Converted fill command to use width and height instead of X2 and Y2 coordinates
- Wool, wool backdrops, dye, carpet and potions now have default types when given with commands
- Game mode buttons can be selected by their labels
- Decreased likelihood of crash-related item loss and item duplication
- Moved command output higher to no longer overlap command window and item text
- The dirt backdrop has randomized rotation
- Using better SWF compression to improve size of game
- Optimizations and fine-tuning to lava, acid, cactus, and detector rail collision
- Fishing time adjusted to emphasize effects of the lure enchantment
- Renamed "grow wheat" achievement to "grow a farm"
- Changed item name "Gun Powder" to "Gunpowder"
- Changed item identifier "block_of_topaz" to "topaz_block"
- Changed item identifier "rabbit_foot" to "rabbits_foot"
- Changed item name and identifier "Enderpearl" to "Ender Pearl"
- Changed item name and identifier "Experience in a Bottle" to "Bottle of Enchanting"
- Changed item name and identifier "Sticks" to "Stick"
- Changed item name and identifier "Rock Backdrop" to "Stone Backdrop"