Quote:We’re now on pre-release 8 and we expect there to be a couple of more pre-releases before the full release. That said, unless any major show stopper pops up after the upcoming pre-releases, we aim to release Update Aquatic for Minecraft: Java Edition on Wednesday, July 18th.

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• Added dead coral fans
  
  
• Changed which blocks show dripping liquids
  
  
• Team names & objective names are now text components, not raw strings
  
  
• More bugfixes!
  

FIXED BUGS IN 1.13-PRE8

• MC-133325 – Double chests becoming invisible or separating with redstone
  
  
• MC-133277 – Texts sometimes error if the language is Chinese
  
  
• MC-133233 – Sticky pistons do not update blocks they cannot pull
  
  
• MC-133216 – Water dripping from transparent blocks
  
  
• MC-133214 – Sticky pistons pull glazed teracotta
  
  
• MC-133157 – Sprinting in shallow water using ctrl will change FOV back and forth
  
  
• MC-132835 – The right “tail” of the capital ß (ẞ) seems to be a few pixels too long.
  
  
• MC-132695 – Some bold characters have either extra or lack of pixels
  
  
• MC-132639 – New version of unicode font has some weird characters
  
  
• MC-132635 – Placing blocks with off-hand while main hand empty not possible
  
  
• MC-132603 – Bark recipes are not upgraded
  
  
• MC-132466 – No enum constant bfz – loading and saving 1.12.2 chunks
  
  
• MC-132174 – Tier 4 beacons will not give regeneration effect
  
  
• MC-132123 – Lighting for broken block not updated
  
  
• MC-131327 – Opaque blocks at the top of subchunks (chunk sections) do not increase the world height to the next subchunk
  
  
• MC-128858 – Distance given by /locate is inaccurate
  
  
• MC-124955 – Bottoms of large ferns and tall grass are generating in place of regular ferns and grass in taiga biomes
  
  
• MC-123447 – Skin not visible in spectator mode GUI (since 1.13)
  
  
• MC-123265 – Spectator mode tooltips not showing
  
  
• MC-68565 – Monsters spawn at daytime at y=256 and don’t burn
  
  
• MC-60995 – Maps inconsistent over restarts