This “Minecraft Beta 1.8 Prerelease v2″ post as quoted below was posted 2 hours ago on the minecraft forums at this link here by Opeth. This prerelease/leak is certainly giving me some insight into how I need to prepare my minecraft server for 1.8 and beyond. My server is called YAMS (Yet Another Minecraft Server) and the ip for it is: 85.236.102.40:31665

Due to a huge increase on new players joining, from time to time we may whitelist the server. If you try and get on but you are not whitelisted please be sure to sign up to the forums at http://www.darrenstraight.com/minecraft/index.php?/forum/11-introduce-and-whitelist-yourself/ where you can read our welcome topic and introduce/whitelist yourself, pretty much all we need from you is your’re Minecraft Username. If you have facebook you can use that to sign in to the forums

Of course we are still on 1.7.3, so if it’s just some quick fun (not a community) you want then 1.8 is for you!!! It is the weekend Enjoy! :)

As with major version releases, prerelease copies are normally distributed to trusted users and developers for bugfix testing and to enable mod updating in time for the official release.

A version of the prerelease has been publicly distributed by one of the groups.

Minecraft 1.8 Prerelease v2: http://assets.minecr…e/minecraft.jar
Server 1.8 Prerelease v2: http://assets.minecr…raft_server.jar

Handling a copy will not involve repercussions. The distribution was authorised by Jeb and I have recieved a confirmation on it.

If you have a copy:
All content regarding the prerelease copies (screenshots and videos) go in this thread.
Any questions/information regarding bugs are to be posted here or passed on to me on IRC.

Any user found distributing the .jar or links to it will be dealt with and have posts removed. The links above should be used.

Thanks, Opeth
Minecraftforum Staff/Bug Tester

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