Java Edition 1.7.4

1.7.4 is an update which included – among other things – a new Mojang splash screen, Twitch.tv broadcasting and the Chicken jockey.

General

 * One click broadcasting to Twitch.tv
 * Microphone can be recorded too.
 * Chat integration in the game.
 * Several new settings
 * Twitch broadcast settings
 * Quality, framerate, bandwidth, send metadata, mic volume, system volume and compression
 * Twitch chat settings
 * Enable and user filter

Gameplay

 * Shaders
 * New 'Notch' shader

Mobs

 * Chicken jockey
 * Consist of a baby zombie riding and controlling a chicken
 * Because the zombie is riding a chicken, it cannot take fall damage
 * As it is a baby zombie it will not burn up if exposed to daylight
 * Extremely rare - every baby zombie spawned has a very small chance of spawning as a chicken jockey
 * Zombie pigmen chicken jockeys can spawn in the nether

General

 * New Mojang splash screen
 * Logo is now red instead of red-orange, has 2 square corners, and the rounded corners are rounder. The text is black instead of orange, the font weight is lighter (bold instead of black), and the face appears to be a custom hybrid of Insignia and Code pro.
 * Mojang splash screen can no longer be changed in resource packs
 * Minecraft realms
 * Servers now have an icon which is the face of the owner's skin
 * Config screen is modified, layout changed

Gameplay

 * Attribute
 * The sharpness enchantment now affects the "attack damage" attribute.
 * Rideable entities
 * When dismounting entities players are no longer moved as far
 * Tab key
 * If all auto-completable options begin the same, tab will fill up the beginning - Example: completes to
 * Video settings
 * Advanced OpenGL option in "video settings" was removed

Mobs

 * Sheep
 * Sheep with the custom name "jeb_" change their colour, fading between all 16 wool colours
 * Commonly referred to as "rainbow sheep", "disco sheep", or "Jeb sheep"
 * Colour changes are visually only; does not affect wool drops

== Fixes ==

Fixed 45 Bugs:
 * – Misaligned textures on south and east faces for non-full blocks
 * – The unicode font is illegible in fullscreen mode
 * – Some texts can't be translated in a language file
 * – Unicode font text shadow in fullscreen mode
 * – Furnace GUI - "full" arrow texture always drawn on leftmost column
 * – In inventory, right-click done after a left-click will be ignored if done within double-click time interval.
 * – Server performance issue: chunk coordinates use a bad hash function
 * – Minimizing other windows open, resizes minecraft window
 * – Minecraft "flashes white" when going to the main menu
 * – Enchantments not showing stats in tooltip.
 * - Music discs cannot be renamed in Resource Packs
 * – Unable to make a tamed wolf sit after shooting yourself
 * – Click or right-click stuck on OS X
 * – OS X fullscreen is not supported
 * – Tab causes line leftovers.
 * – Unable to take screenshot in GUI or active chat line
 * – Minecraft mac command key glitch
 * – Flower duplication glitch
 * – Adventuring time — list of visited biomes resets on login
 * – Right clicking a flower pot that has certain plants in it while holding another plant replaces the one in the flower pot with the one you're holding
 * – Wrong render distance beyond 8 and more chunks settings.
 * – Weird Glass Texture
 * – Glitchy item borders with mipmapping and anisotropic filtering activated
 * – Loading text in Polish (and other languages with Unicode font) isn't showing properly
 * – Font file of Unicode Page C2 (Korean) shows character '숼'(U+C23C) at the position of '쉴'(U+C274)
 * – Graphics/Lighting Glitch while breaking blocks
 * – Cactus has incorrect inventory image
 * – Items with enchantment effect cause blocks and potion effects indicator to not render
 * – Water too transparent?
 * – Background rendering issues when picking up enchanted items / caption of containers white
 * – Multiple background songs playing at one time / automatic music overlap
 * – Damaged armour, tools & weapons placed in certain inventory slots cause other slots to go black
 * – Graphical glitch on beacon effects in inventory screen.
 * – Rendering glitch when looking at river through stained glass
 * – Translucent parts of stained glass not visible in 3rd person mode
 * – Weird rendering of transparent blocks on the 0-axis
 * – Upon exiting (shift click) minecart, the range and criteria is drastically off, up to 8 blocks away
 * – Block held in 3rd person rendered incorrectly
 * – Enchanted items have big enchant around whole item
 * – All the textures are flipped/mirrored on north/east sides of blocks
 * – Records do not get played in full but rather will be stopped playing
 * – Falling invisible slime causes "blue screen"
 * – Players become invisible+immune for PvP damage, after being killed and relogging instead of respawning
 * –  packet can no longer set item under cursor