Java Edition guides

Many major updates for are released in multiple minor updates, and each minor update potentially contains a lot of added and changed content. To make it easier to get up to speed with this, these guides have been made to reduce the complexity of the technical information as described by individual update pages.

The tables below list all guides, one for each major update, with on the right a list of the minor releases that are related to that update. Minor releases for which a guide isn't updated yet, are crossed out.

Upcoming update guides
These guides describe upcoming major versions of Java Edition, for which snapshots have already come out.

Full Release update guides
These guides describe major versions of Java Edition that have been released.

Pre-Release update guides
These guides describe beta, alpha and pre-alpha versions of Java Edition that were released prior to the Adventure Update.