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Last nightly version (see “Development news” above) now became stable version.
It has:

• New world generator with mountains, plains, caves and cliffs.





• Server fixes, including building permissions (to keep out vandals). Account verification.



• Doors, tnt
• Night is enabled by default.
• Easier to use server list – can start game directly from play page
• Dozens of little fixes.

Be sure to check for more updates in the coming week. I’m adding a modding system, similar to modding in Minetest. http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1225

Version 2011-02-12 (compatible with previous) has:

• Per-server textures. Replace terrain.png and players connecting to the server will see it.
• Sun and moon.
• More options: key bindings, view distance, sound off. Options are saved.
• Server setting to disallow freemove.
• Small speed improvement.
• Chat scrolling.

New version (2011-01-15) is around 3x faster at high view distance. At view distance under 256 (F key), game is up to 10x times faster than previously.

There is less fog.
Fog 32 (old version on the left)

Fog 64

Details about optimizations: forum.

Winter

Unicode fonts (can use Cyrillic alphabet)

• Hand animation.
• Better swimming.
• Removed Minecraft Classic client (“Mine mode”).
• Broken minecarts.