Minecraft Snapshot 16w04a

Minecraft version 16w04a, a new snapshot for Minecraft 1.9, has been released.

Find all servers to this version here : https://minecraft-mp.com/version/16w04a/

Changes

General

• Sounds
  • Some updated sounds.
  • Rain sounds are now more ambient/less loud and sound more 'realistic'.

Non-Mob Entities

• Boats
  • Will now move forward and backwards using the forward and backwards key, and will steer left and right using the left and right keys respectively.
  • Now break lilypads.
  • The boat will stay in one place when pressing the left and right keys at the same time, but paddles will be moving.
  • Now faster and stay at a consistent speed, unlike previous snapshots.
  • Now work on land, travelling faster than sprinting on foot.
  • Now sink when there's water above it
  • Crafting recipe does not require shovel anymore.

Fixes

28 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.9

• MC-47636 – Boats appear to be sunken in water
• MC-88427 – Endermen & blazes get ‘wet’ and take damage in boats.
• MC-90052 – Dismounting from a boat drops the player in the water.
• MC-90272 – Zombies/skeletons in boats do not burn from sunlight.

From the 1.9 development versions

• MC-84632 – A chorus flower placed at or growing to Y=255 turns to chorus plant.
• MC-89766 – Items on top of lily pads dance and jump from pad to pad
• MC-89948 – Shulkers spin endlessly when riding in boats.
• MC-89963 – Horse hitbox is larger than boat hitbox.
• MC-89978 – Small mobs drown in boats.
• MC-89985 – Squids ride in the boat when riding over them.
• MC-89987 – An off-hand item is still shown when moving in a boat.
• MC-90011 – Boats point the direction opposite from the direction a player places it.
• MC-90084 – When sitting in boats, player / mob legs penetrate the hull.
• MC-90085 – Boats do not break lily pads.
• MC-90124 – Reopening a world when riding an entity / boat dismounts the player for some seconds.
• MC-90175 – The game crashes when boats are summoned as passengers of a living entity.
• MC-90307 – Boats don’t lose any speed if directly above air.
• MC-90352 – Placing boats on slime blocks and mounting it propels player & boat up hundreds of blocks.
• MC-90594 – Player can stop sneaking/gliding without space to stand up.
• MC-90909 – Boat auto-corrects position and overcompensates the angle when making short turns.
• MC-91008 – When changing hand in boats, the item being swapped is still visually in the other hand.
• MC-91524 – Entities disappear from boats (are removed, not invisible).
• MC-91857 – Passengers might be broken (the game removes and adds the riding entity from the ridden entity every five seconds).
• MC-92171 – Flicker when standing on boat / Falling through boat
• MC-92346 – The world does not render for passengers of boats or riders of horses.
• MC-92439 – Player facing is awkward when entering a boat from the front.
• MC-92536 – Mobs do not properly fit in the passenger seat of a boat.
• MC-92555 – Boat "lid" rendering entities partially invisible

Source : http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/16w04a