Nightly 2026-11-04 · 6475f62 — release notes

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Nightly 2026-11-04 · 6475f62: main (6475f62), built from nightly/build-2026-11-04-3 (6475f62f3c834b7489e1816bf47f47ea5eb2b879).

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New

• Launcher: the Shop on the glass look, the new founder set, cosmetics on by default (#8620)

Fixed

• launcher: Sculk banner on every page without its border, GitHub mark on Sponsor (#9095)
• game: a wither never rides a minecart (#8843, fixes #8790)
• mobs: a zero-duration effect is over, not infinite (#8853, fixes #8721)
• mobs: the wither takes no potion effect (#8857, fixes #8776)
• mobs: environmental damage does not dim a glow squid (#8864, fixes #8724)
• Boats never take a Warden or Wither aboard, as vanilla (#8887, fixes #8831)
• chat: include entity_types and wind charges in summon autocomplete (#8501, fixes #8419)
• mobs: suppress Guardian and Elder Guardian flop sounds when silent (#8966, fixes #8933)
• mobs: set Elder Guardian wander restriction on ai.home (#8952, fixes #8934)
• game: guard container open and close game events by opener count edge (#8964, fixes #8957)
• mobs: exclude wither from sweet berry bush and powder snow slowdown (#9051, fixes #8785)
• Advancements: thrown snowballs, eggs and pearls and bucketed mobs fire their triggers (#8654, fixes #8653)
• Advancements: a bare id, tag or key in a predicate reads as a minecraft: one (#8662, fixes #8661)
• Advancements: potion and cloud kills and falling-block hits fire their triggers (#8683, fixes #8682)
• Advancements: looking_at sees every entity, in every trigger (#8687, fixes #8686)
• Shader packs: currentRenderedItemId per draw, and the hand per held item (#8042)
• Preserve authored shader uniform initial values (proposed independent replacement) (#8474, fixes #7811)
• Bind terrain resource-pack material maps (proposed independent replacement) (#8510, fixes #7747)
• Shader packs: smooth() fade times count tenths of a second, as in Iris (#8974, fixes #8492)
• Shader packs: read shaders.properties with the feature macros, as Iris does (#8975, fixes #8493)
• Shader packs: expand macros in custom uniform and variable lines (#8993, fixes #8976)
• Shader packs: atomic functions on a component of a buffer block's vector (#8994, fixes #8977)
• Shader packs: min3, max3 and mid3 of GL_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax (#9002, fixes #8460)
• Shader packs: match iris.features names in any case, as Iris does (#9014, fixes #8996)
• Shader packs: a custom uniform naming what Iris can't see reads 0 whole (#9015, fixes #8995)
• Shader packs: without gbuffers_clouds, draw the clouds with gbuffers_textured, else gbuffers_basic (#9019, fixes #9011)
• Shader packs: light Nether faces at the Nether's up-face 0.9, as Iris does (#9020, fixes #9012)
• Shader packs: a forced flip of a buffer the program writes cancels its flip (#9022, fixes #9010)
• Shader packs: a Clear = false buffer starts each frame from its last write (#9023, fixes #9009)
• Packs: a decimal pack format reads as its whole part (#9047, fixes #9042)
• Shader packs: a glow item frame and what it holds draw as glow_item_frame (#9048, fixes #9043)
• Shader packs: End portal faces reach the shadow pass with their block entity (#9049, fixes #9044)
• Shader packs: read shadowtex0/1 linearly through a plain sampler, as Iris does (#8999)
• Shader packs: a const local may be a texel offset (#9005, fixes #8462)
• Shader packs: a pack with an integer colortex0 loads (#9007, fixes #8459)
• Shader packs: read colortex formats only where Iris 1.11.7 does (#9087, fixes #9063)
• Superflat worlds with structures place their features and lakes (#8163)
• Superflat worlds without structures place their features and lakes too (#8170, fixes #2912)
• Shader packs: a bool member of a std430 buffer translates (#8182, fixes #8175)
• Buckets: the fluid ray passes through the hollow of a torch, fence or flower (#8188, fixes #8180)
• A server sends its world packs' tags for every registry, not only dialogs (#8218)
• Worker pool: release idle generators while the client keeps meshing (#8520)
• Commands: /execute on owner no longer finds the guest in place when the owner is not in the world (#8619, fixes #8488)
• A passenger freezes in powder snow, and the frostbite overlay shows it (#8167)
• A boat in powder snow is slowed and throws snowflakes (#8171, fixes #8156)
• horizon-server: Prometheus metrics by dimension (loaded chunks and entities) (#8194, fixes #8191)
• Implement live entity broadcast range management (#8128, fixes #8124)
• Server API: pin lifecycle replies (#8834, fixes #8816)
• Server API: pin backup replies (#8844, fixes #8839)

Thanks to @Akirabane, @HrafnaValkyrja, @TiggerTakkyTTT, @arslanarm, @contactjayclatty, @degepie, @gigamans442, @glitchsnake, @senjinthedragon.

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