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1.18.1 is a minor update to Java Edition, released on December 10, 2021,[1] which makes minor changes related to fog and fixes bugs.

Changes

General

Fog
  • World fog now starts further away from the player, to make distant terrain more visible.
  • Instead of applying fog as a spherical volume it is now applied as a cylindrical volume.

Fixes

7 issues fixed
From released versions before 1.18
  • MC-219507 – Beacon's power reverts back to previous one on world reload.
  • MC-229321 – Bees inside of bee hives / nests sometimes despawn when the world is reloaded.
From 1.18
  • MC-242729 – Observer activating without any updates nearby, caused by /clone.
  • MC-243216 – Chunk render distance on servers seems shorter than in 1.17.1.
  • MC-243796 – Random non fatal exceptions in console: Failed to store chunk ConcurrentModificationException.
Other
  • Fixed an issue that would cause players on low-bandwidth connections to get timeout errors when connecting to a server.
  • Fixed a critical security issue in which players are able to execute code on others' devices via in-game messaging (RCE exploit). [2][3]

Trivia

  • So far, this is the minor version with the most release candidates.

References

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