Here is a surprise second snapshot for 26.2! It fixes some serious issues and crashes of the previous one released earlier this week.
Happy mining!
Changes
Performance Improvements
Upgrading certain worlds from before 26.1 can now be faster
Technical Changes
The fps F3 screen entry will now report which type of present mode is used (e.g. mailbox or fifo relaxed), as opposed to just vsync
Fixed bugs in 26.2 Snapshot 2
MC-306840 – Dolphins still drown themselves when no players are nearby
MC-307286 – The game process does not terminate after exiting the game
MC-307296 – Launching the game with an incompatible resource pack that modifies core shaders causes the game to softlock
MC-307311 – Core shaders only load after restart when using Vulkan
MC-307320 – Vulkan prevents the game from opening and crashes some GPUs
MC-307349 – The game crashes before opening
MC-307383 – The “Exclusive Fullscreen” setting does not work with the Vulkan rendering backend
Get the Snapshot
Snapshots are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the Snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the “Installations” tab.
Testing versions can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.
Cross-platform server jar:
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