Friendly Update

The Friendly Update is the name for Minecraft: Pocket Edition version Alpha 0.15.0, a major update released on June 13, 2016.

The official name for the update, the Friendly Update, was revealed on June 3, 2016 in a blog post on the Mojang website.

Additions

 * Realms, which requires logging into an Xbox Live account
 * Achievements for iOS and Android devices
 * Online multiplayer via Xbox Live
 * Pig riding
 * Pistons and sticky pistons
 * The Observer, a block update detector.
 * Sheep now drop mutton.
 * Tipped arrows, which are made by using cauldrons
 * Leather horse armor, which can be dyed.
 * Seven new mobs: horses, mules, donkeys, skeleton traps, zombie horses, strays, and husks.
 * Name tags
 * Leads
 * Fire charges
 * Carrot on a stick
 * Villages now spawn in taiga and savanna biomes.

Changes

 * Trapdoors no longer require supporting blocks.
 * Shears now lose durability when breaking any block.
 * For performance, online multiplayer now uses less bandwidth.