Minecraft:Java Edition 1.7.6-pre1

1.7.6-pre1 is the first pre-release for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.7.6, released on April 3, 2014, which adds support for username changing and fixes bugs.<ref>Template:Cite</ref> This is the first pre-release released in 2014.

Changes

General

Minecraft:Skin

• Skins and capes are now distributed through servers.
  • Skins server outages occur less frequently and have less impact.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref><ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
  • Skin changes no longer require client restarting, at worst re-logging updates the skin for everybody.
  • Server-altered skins/capes are not possible - only signed URLs are stored server-side.
  • Duplicate skins no longer need to be downloaded twice.
  • Server traffic is barely affected.

Name changing

• Added support for name changing.
  • The ability to actually change account names will not come until 1.8.<ref>Minecraft snapshot 14w10a; Mojang.com - March 6, 2014</ref>

Options

• The "Server Resource Packs" option is now per-server, and has three settings: prompt, enabled, and disabled.
• The minimum setting for the FOV option is now 30 instead of 70.

Trivia

• 1.7.6-pre1 is the first pre-release which uses the new naming convention, version-pren. Previous versions incremented the minor version number instead of the pre-release counter.
• This version was previously removed from the Minecraft:launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.