Minecraft 1.8.3

Minecraft 1.8.3 has been released yesterday to fix a bug in Minecraft 1.8.2 that caused a crash on world load.

Minecraft 1.8.2 has been released two days ago and was compatible with 1.8 and 1.8.1 servers.

New statistics

• Cake Slices Eaten
• Cauldrons Filled
• Water Taken from Cauldron
• Armor Pieces Cleaned
• Banners Cleaned
• Interactions with Brewing Stand
• Interactions with Beacon
• Droppers Searched
• Hoppers Searched
• Dispensers Searched
• Noteblocks played
• Noteblocks tuned
• Plants potted
• Trapped Chests Triggered
• Ender Chests Opened
• Items Enchanted
• Records Played
• Interactions with Furnace
• Interactions with Crafting Table
• Chests Opened

New frame time graph in debug screen

• Activated by pressing Alt+F3 to display frame time bar chart in lower left of screen

Changes

Spectator Mode

• Mobs no longer follow/attack you in spectator mode

TNT

• Reverted explosion physic changes to those before the 14w31a snapshot.
• Explosion force is no longer directionally biased

Oak and dark oak trees

• Oak and Dark oak branches no longer replace blocks

Beacons

• Now ignore bedrock above them when determining a clear view to the sky.

Mobs

• Ocelots now spawn at or above sea level, rather than at Y=63.
• Squids now spawn below sea level, rather than at Y=63.

Carrot on a Stick

• Crafting one now removes all enchantments from the original fishing rod.

Multiplayer

• Now directly takes you back to the mulitplayer screen instead of the title screen when leaving a server.

Fixes

53 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.8.2

• MC-141 – /spawnpoint command fails directly on Pressure Plates, Cobwebs, Signs, Open Fence Gates
• MC-417 – Arrows first bounce back then appear at correct location
• MC-1973 – Items placed into a beacon are lost upon destroying it or reloading a world
• MC-3416 – Player location marker invisible on map (wrong Z-Order). One-line fix included.
• MC-3885 – Arrows shot into the underside of a block appear black
• MC-4405 – Beacons work inconsistently in the Nether
• MC-8578 – Hopper sometimes doesn't suck items above when they are overlaying
• MC-10176 – Oak/Dark Oak Tree Branches can replace all solid blocks (including Bedrock and Barrier)
• MC-13057 – Multiplayer "back to title screen" button incorrect
• MC-31338 – No eggs with /summon
• MC-40275 – Credit screen/End Poem music not playing correctly
• MC-41881 – Hopper minecart acts like it is in a different position
• MC-42192 – WitherSkulls flash for a brief moment when being summoned
• MC-44634 – Invulnerable Fireballs are invisible/being client-side rendered on hit
• MC-47683 – Black particles when breaking a block / Torch particles dark
• MC-48219 – Keyboard input causes mouse look to stutter or jerk (Fixed in LWJGL 2.9.3)
• MC-48969 – Tellraw crashes if clickEvent is an URL without "http://"
• MC-49704 – Mooshroom udder texture does not display correctly
• MC-50769 – Mooshrooms incorrectly display custom mushroom models
• MC-51573 – Hostile mobs continue to follow/attack you in spectator mode
• MC-51804 – Corner fences / cobblestone wall with a block next to them turn black (Smooth lighting off)
• MC-63370 – Baby Cows are Milkable
• MC-64444 – Wither Skulls are being rendered for a moment
• MC-65697 – Explosion force on entities is directionally biased
• MC-66089 – Explosion physics changed, range of some TNT cannons greatly reduced
• MC-66090 – TNT is no longer colliding with a block placed above it when the TNT is triggered
• MC-67727 – Beacons in Nether need clear path to "sky"
• MC-71163 – Bed can overlap when placed on grass
• MC-72574 – /stats command doesn't work on players who aren't op
• MC-73866 – Game crash when an item is thrown into a nether portal.
• MC-74686 – Marker armorstand block placing issue
• MC-74866 – Chunk flickering (only Intel HD Graphics / Driver version 10.18.10.3958)
• MC-75083 – Single Player: Can't select any of the previous created worlds in Java 8 (Fixed by installing Java 7) (Windows 8)
• MC-75195 – Armor stands with the "Marker" tag set to 1 don't show their nametag
• MC-75722 – Buy a realm has no "Back" button with no internet connection
• MC-75885 – World generator crashes when generating pumpkins (e.g. seed "Cows")
• MC-76239 – Minecraft Realms main menu button's text between quotation marks
• MC-76611 – villages.dat stores player names instead of UUIDs
• MC-76650 – Glass Pane image flipped
• MC-76747 – Various particles near world border rendered incorrectly.

From the 1.8 development versions

• MC-47832 – Certain entities can't be selected by type
• MC-57691 – Water generates above sea level as part of ocean monument generation
• MC-57769 – Server Console spams "0"
• MC-58184 – Cocoa block texture bug
• MC-59549 – Graphical Arrow Glitch in Position
• MC-60859 – Regular stone villages spawning desert biomes
• MC-61475 – Using /setblock to set block entities with items in their inventory does not update comparators adjacent to the block entity
• MC-61897 – Crash when dispensing any minecart types out of upside-down dispensers onto powered rails or activator rails
• MC-67150 – Ocean Monument cuts unnaturally into ocean floor
• MC-70104 – Arrow visual glitch (fake arrow)

From the 1.8.1 development versions

• MC-73062 – Ambiguous Realms error "Incompatible client, consider updating" at newest snapshot
• MC-73406 – Beacon stops working at a certain height

From the 1.8.2 development versions

• MC-77656 – When Exiting Realms get taken to Multiplayer scanning screen

Source : http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/1.8.2