Minecraft 1.9 !!!11!!111!1!!!!

Minecraft Version 1.9 is finally available!

Here is a video by slicedlime showing off the update!

And a Full Changelist:

Weapons & Combat: - Off hand slot - Shields & No blocking on swords - Weapon stats on tools - Attack indicator - Attack speed - Weapon special abilities - Damage indicators - Armor protection rebalancing - Protection enchant rebalancing - Sharpness enchant rebalancing - Spectral arrows - Potion tipped arrow types Core gameplay mechanics: - Natural health regen now depends on saturation - Elytra (wings), have cape texture, lets players glide around - Flying into blocks hurts - Riding is now client-side, fixes glitchyness of fast movement - Middle-click in survival - Collision! - Ender pearls cooldown - Ender pearls usable in creative World generation: - Igloos! With a rare chance for a basement structure! - Stronghold limit is now 128, up from 3 The End: - New end pillar layout - Caged end crystals - Fixed end portal location - Ender dragon fight - Dragon fireballs - Dragon's breath - Ender crystal recipe - Ender dragon respawn (no egg) - End gateways - Outer end island - Chorus fruits, chorus plants - Purpur blocks and its variants - End stone bricks - End rods - End cities - Shulkers & bullets - Levitation - Flying ships - Dragon's head - Elytra - Dragon head - Beetroots, Beetroot seeds, Beetroot soup Enchants, Potions, Buffs, Debuffs: - Buff / debuff GUI - Lingering potions - Brewing needs fuel - Treasure enchants. Can only be looted off chests, fished or traded - Frostwalker enchant - Mending enchant - No repair cost for renaming an item - No silk touch on shears. Shears harvest spider web blocks by default - Notch apples nerfed, recipe removed - Overpowered achievement now requires eating one Enemies & AI: - Wearing mob head conceals player from that mob type - Zombie villager professions and skins - Skeletons now strafe around as they shoot - Pathfinding fixes! - Skeleton horse traps: chance to spawn in thunderstorms - Traps activate on proximity, spawning 3-4 skeletal riders - Killing rider leaves the horse for player use - Hostile mobs no longer spawn on minecart rails - XP Orbs now circle your chest instead of your head Passive Mobs & Villagers: - Rabbits now run from the player and are smaller, have less health, 1½ hearts - Their pelt color and pattern is affected by which biome they spawn in - Rabbits now eat all types of crops, but rather than destroy them them one stage less grown - Horses will stop accepting food once at 0 temper and 100% likely to tame - The default wolf collar color has changed from orange to red - Pets dying now always show a chat notification - New snow golem type, shearing head off - Villagers no longer sell eyes of ender, instead sell ender pearls - Villagers no longer slam doors endlessly while trying to move in or out Blocks: - Trap doors no longer require a block - No flowing water texture next to glass in water - Landing on hay bales when falling causes less fall damage - Grass path block! Boats: - Can be made in all kinds of wood - Oars and rowing animation - Can now have a passenger - Don't instantly break on contact - Can now be used on land Redstone & Mechanisms: - Block collisions fixed, item elevators broken - Blocks moved by pistons no longer have glitchy collisions, breaking shifting floor farms - Piston heads now pull entities in - Redstone hitbox now depends its connections Sounds: - Lots of new sounds! - Subtitles! World Creation: - World thumbnails - World version numbers - Edit world screen - The Void superflat preset & The Void biome - Spectate button when dying in hardcore Command Blocks: - New command block types: inpulse, chain, repeat - Conditional command blocks - Needs redstone/always active - Tab completion in command blocks F3 & F5: - Camera doesn't auto-switch back out of F5 mode anymore. - F3 function list on F3+Q.