[kongel nick]

my friend keeps texting me about how its come out and how awesome it is, and i went to youtube, which shows videos of 1.8 and how its come out. so why has it not appeared in notch's blog and the website and the login screen?

[imahaxor]

I don't think it's out, but then again I don't have a computer to check

[Prodigy9]

The current 1.8 is unofficial. It was leaked by one of the few early testers, and Notch then made it available semi-officially through minecraft's website (so that people don't get their accounts stolen by downloading tampered-with leaked copies, I guess). But 1.8 isn't a finished product (apparently there are changes being made tomorrow), and it won't be automatically downloaded to players' clients until the fully-official version.

[blackknight24]

the pre-release is out, but the real 1.8 isnt yet, as far as i know.

[CalebTheCreep]

For any official information on the release of 1.8, check out Jeb's twitter account. Here are two of his tweets.

jeb_
@Byrek Yes, I've been alone on Minecraft since after PAX. Notch is working on a secret project

I said this earlier, but tomorrow I will *at least* upload a new pre-release (actually, @mollstam will be doing the uploading)

[Keyhen]

Currently having problems getting into Dev at the moment, saying its taking too long to log in

[hippoface]

It is 1.7.3 I think.

[Keyhen]

Wait what?

[hippoface]

Wait what?

I think the made it 1.7.3 again. The dev. Also, all the minecraft servers were being really laggy for 1.8 . I tried a bunch. I had to go back to 1.7.

[Keyhen]

Well the new pre-release for 1.8 came out, and the XP orbs have been fixed.