A critical security issue has been discovered that affects Minecraft. If you have the game running, close down all instances and restart the launcher.

We're also now releasing a third release candidate for Minecraft 1.18.1 to fix the security issue. If there are no major issues following this release, no further changes will be done before the full release.

Happy mining!

This update can also be found on minecraft.net.

If you find any bugs, please report them on the official Minecraft Issue Tracker. You can also leave feedback on the Feedback site.

Get the Release Candidate

Snapshots, pre-releases and release candidates are available for Minecraft Java Edition. To install the release candidate, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Testing versions can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft server jar

What else is new?

If you want to know what else is being added and changed in Part II of the Caves & Cliffs Update, check out the previous release candidate post or the Caves & Cliffs Part II Release Post.

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