Minecraft Education version history

This article is about previous updates for Education Edition. For development versions, see Education Edition version history/Development versions. For future updates, see Planned versions. For other uses, see Version history.

This is a list of versions for Education Edition. Prior to these versions, Education Edition existed as an official mod called MinecraftEdu.

Game client

Version	Development release	Full release
1.14.50	October 14, 2020	November 22, 2020
1.14.31	June 22, 2020	August 7, 2020
1.12.60	–	January 31, 2020
1.12.5	October 24, 2019	November 12, 2019
1.12.1	–	October 18, 2019
1.12.0	–	August 14, 2019
1.9.0	March 7, 2019	March 21, 2019
1.7.0 (Code Builder)	–	November 12, 2018
1.4.0 (Update Aquatic)	–	June 12, 2018
1.0.28	–	April 6, 2018
1.0.27 (Chemistry Update)	–	February 22, 2018
1.0.21	–	October 9, 2017
1.0.18	–	July 19, 2017
1.0.17	–	May 22, 2017
1.0	–	November 1, 2016
Early access	–	October 2, 2016

Code Connection

As of Education Edition 1.7, Code Connection is no longer needed for coding in Minecraft Education as Code Builder is now built-in to the client. Code Connection is still needed for coding in Bedrock Edition.

Version	Release date	Changelog
1.50	June 12, 2018	Code Builder is now built-in, available by pressing C. The companion app Code Connection is still compatible with Bedrock and Education editions. Miscellaneous bug fixes
1.41	April 6, 2018	Fixed an issue with the app that would prevent it from connecting to the game client when app is installed via the Microsoft Store for Education
1.40	February 22, 2018	Version number is included in bottom left corner. This number is used when contacting the Support Team. The back arrow was removed. To return to the development environment selection screen, please click on the Code Connection text Added a warning when closing the application that this will cause Code Connection to disconnect
Release	May 22, 2017	Code Connection for Minecraft officially released.
Beta	May 2, 2017	First open beta publicly available. Demo version also available at the Microsoft Store.

Classroom Mode

Version	Release date	Changelog
1.81	?	?
1.7	June 12, 2018	Minor bug fixes.
1.61	April 6, 2018	Fixed an issue with the app that would prevent it from connecting to the game client when app is installed via the Microsoft Store for Education
1.60	February 22, 2018	Version number included in the bottom left corner.This number is used when contacting the Support Team. No changes were made to this app for this release
Release	November 1, 2016	Classroom Mode for Minecraft officially released.