Minecraft 1.8 has been Officially Released!

Minecraft 1.8 has been released, officially this time. Minecraft 1.8 adds a lot of new features including:

• Added a brand new biome generation code that simplifies life a lot and makes things much more exciting for the future
• Added new mob; Endermen
• Added FOV slider
• Added brightness slider
• Added randomly generated ravines
• Killing a monster makes it drop experience orbs
• The player can level up by gathering experience orbs
• Added randomly generated houses
• Added huge mushrooms
• Using bonemeal on small mushrooms grows the mushroom into a giant mushroom if there’s room
• Rewrote the light rendering to use multitexturing instead of direct colors
• Sky light and block light have different tints, cool colors for sky light, warm for block lights
• Added critical hits that deal +50% damage, plus an extra point to make crits with weak weapons worth it
• If the player hits a mob while falling, they always hit a critical hit
• The game now keeps track of damage sources and types
• Some damage type ignore armor now; drowning, being on fire (but not being IN a fire), falling out of the world
• Ice now only spreads next to existing ice or from coast areas
• Made the explosions prettier
• Made level height depend on a single variable (the level height still is 128, but it’s more moddable now)
• Added sprinting
• Added hunger
• Food is now stackable
• Improved the logo
• Added suspended particles to water
• Added a server list so you can remember multiple servers
• The player regenerates slowly while the food bar is high
• Eating food now takes time + Skeletons hold their bows better now
• Added melons
• Made melons and pumpkins farmable
• Animals that get hurt will flee randomly for a short while
• Pigs have snouts now
• Made a flashier title screen
• Looking towards the sun during sunset/sunrise changes fog color
• Added fence gates
• Added a player list to multiplayer
• Added Silverfish
• Added Cave Spider
• Added huge underground dungeons (stronghold)
• Added underground mine shafts
• Added melon
• Added sprouts for melons and pumpkins
• Added vines + Added iron bars
• Fixed mushrooms spreading infinitely
• Fixed caves generating with too many dead ends
• Removed Herobrine

This means all current mods are now broken, including mods that were ported to 1.8 Pre-release 1 and 2.