Minecraft 1.9 Update Has Been Prereleased
The new features are: New items: Nine new music discs Blaze Powder Magma Cream Glass Bottle Spider Eye Fermented Spider Eye Game mechanics: A new Hardcore Mode – Game ends upon death Golden apple is now shiny Villagers no longer have names Endermen Pearls now teleport you when thrown Item repair! – Put two broken items in the crafting grid Fences now attach to adjacent blocks, has an interesting outcome when used certain ways Pumpkins can be “crafted” into Pumpkin Seeds Zombie Pigmen now drop rotten flesh and Gold Bits Glass Panes now shatter when mined Exp Orbs now show up in score upon death Poison timer in inventory Animal breeding: Feed peaceful mobs wheat to make them breed with each other Passive mobs follow you when wheat is selected Source: ModsforMinecraft