Frostburn Update

The Frostburn Update is the name for Minecraft version 1.10, a major update that was released on Wednesday, June 8th, 2016. It added some new features such as skeleton/zombie variants in snowy biomes and deserts, polar bears, structure blocks for saving/loading structures in your world, and an auto-jump feature.

The official name for the update, the Frostburn Update, was revealed on June 8, 2016, in a blog post on the Mojang website, the same day the update was released.

Snapshots began the week after 1.9.3 and 1.9.4 were released. Only 3 snapshots and 2 pre-releases were released between May 18th, 2016 and June 8th, 2016, making the Frostburn Update one of the quickest Minecraft updates to date.

Mojang released the first pre-release on June 2, 2016, and the second pre-release on June 7th, one day before the update was released.

Additions

 * 18 new sound events, plus 2 new ambient sounds.
 * 4 new splashes.
 * An "auto-jump" option (enabled by default), which automatically makes the player jump.
 * 1 new particle:
 * 1 new command:
 * 4 new NBT tags:
 * ,,   and
 * Fossils
 * 5 new blocks:
 * Structure void, Magma block, Nether Wart Block, Red Nether Brick and Bone Block
 * 3 new mobs:
 * Polar Bears, Strays, and Husks

Changes

 * command y-coordinate range increased.
 * A huge amount of changes to world generation.
 * Structure blocks can now be used in-game.
 * Chorus fruit and ender pearls now teleport players from ride-able horses / pigs.
 * Mobs can now shoot while they are in a boat.
 * Enderman now spawn in the Nether.
 * Magma cubes now spawn twice as often.
 * Skeletons now shoot the arrow they are holding in their off-hand.
 * Wolves no longer despawn.

Trivia

 * This update has the fewest amount of snapshots to date, with a mere 3 compared to the 20-30 from previous updates.
 * The time span between the releases of 16w20a and 1.10-pre1 was only 2 weeks, abnormal according to the Mojang standards.