Bedrock Edition version history

This page is a reverse chronology of all updates released for. Bedrock Edition has been in development since August 16, 2011, and was called ''Minecraft: Pocket Edition at the time. Bedrock Edition was in Alpha until November 18, 2016, when the game was fully released. Upon the release of Bedrock Edition 1.2.0, the "Pocket Edition" subtitle was dropped, and the edition was unofficially dubbed "Bedrock Edition". Further updates have been released ever since, the most recent being.

Bedrock Edition
After the release of the Better Together Update on September 20, 2017, multiplayer could now be conducted across mobile devices, Windows PCs, the Xbox One, and eventually the Nintendo Switch on June 21, 2018, and the PlayStation 4 on December 10, 2019. The Bedrock Edition is still being developed today.

Pocket Edition
With Pocket Edition 1.0.0 implementing the final dimension in the game - the End, Minecraft: Pocket Edition embraced its full release. It was re-branded as Minecraft less than a year later.

Pocket Edition Alpha
was first disclosed on E3 2011 in July where a primary demo was available and lasted for more than five years. The prolonged development has been porting features from onto the mobile platform piece by piece until the game is "finished", with the release of Pocket Edition 1.0.0.