Minecraft 1.9 Pre-Release2 Is Available

Minecraft 1.9-pre2, the second pre-release for 1.9, has been released. Minecraft 1.9 should be released on February 25, 2016.

Find all Minecraft 1.9 servers here : https://minecraft-mp.com/version/1_9/

Changes

Spawning

• Pack spawning is less likely to spawn the full pack, and less likely to spread them out.
  • Previously, spawning a pack would start from the center three times and cumulatively adjust the coordinates four times by up to ±5 in X and Z, trying to spawn a mob each time, for a total of twelve spawn attempts (although it stops early if a full pack has spawned). Now that "four times" is a random number 1–4, meaning fewer total spawn attempts and less chance for the attempt coordinates to get far from the pack center.

Fixes

10 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.9

• MC-27485 – Painting / item frame spawners crash the game, regardless of data provided.
• MC-35127 – Wrong NBT TAG Type for fallTime in FallingSand entities.
• MC-35714 – Sounds loop/restart when exiting screens.
• MC-37516 – Items with attributes e.g. generic.movementSpeed will not work after deselecting and wearing them.

From the 1.9 development versions

• MC-89928 – End portals do not place the player at the correct coordinates.
• MC-90101 – Mob spawner is overwriting (ignoring?) Pos[x,y,z] data of entity.
• MC-91290 – Skeletons with no AI are spawning naturally.
• MC-91388 – Chicken jockeys spawning without the zombie / invisible zombie.
• MC-95538 – /playsound command doesn’t work with selectors not resolving to exactly one entity.
• MC-97523 – Nether portals briefly teleport players to original location in alternate dimension.

Source : http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/1.9-pre2