Presenting the first pre-release of 1.19: The Wild Update!

From now on, you should mostly see bugs being fixed. In addition to that, pre-releases don't follow the regular snapshot cadence of releasing on Wednesdays, so keep an eye out for the next pre-release ;)

As always, a big thank you to the community for your feedback, bugs reported, and awesome ideas throughout the snapshot series. Let the pre-releases commence!

Changes in 1.19 Pre-release 1

Slightly reduced the number of Mangrove trees in Mangrove Swamps
Endermen, Skeletons, Wither Skeletons and Piglins now spawn in a wider range of light levels in the Nether (from light level 0 to 11)
Item interaction vibrations are now emitted when you start or finish "using" an item with a start and finish state (such as Bows, Crossbows, Goat Horns, Shields, Food)
Item interaction vibrations are now ignored when sneaking
Placing items that aren't armor (such as Pumpkins and Skulls) in your headwear slot now plays a generic equip sound

Technical Changes in 1.19 Pre-release 1

Auto-completion is now available for the template argument to place template
Custom servers can now enable or disable chat preview for certain clients by sending a new network packet
Now, a chat preview is also shown for chat-related commands, such as /say and /msg
test-rainbow-chat has been removed from server.properties

Added Game Events

note_block_play with a vibration frequency of 6
instrument_play with a vibration frequency of 15

Fixed bugs in 1.19 Pre-release 1

MC-94060 Equipping armor/elytra through inventory or dispenser doesn't play sounds
MC-134892 PacketBuffer.writeString's max length is in bytes, while readString is in characters
MC-209222 Attempting to open the Minecraft Realms menu claims that the client is outdated, even if the snapshot may be newer than the release
MC-210279 Sculk sensors are not activated upon entities being summoned by a spawner
MC-213915 Equipping armor through the inventory does not count as a vibration
MC-218222 Distance value for Sculk Sensors is limited to integers
MC-225195 Goats don't panic when tempted with their favorite food
MC-230735 "FOV Effects" setting description is innacurate
MC-249141 No subtitles are produced upon frogs stepping
MC-249164 The entity.frog.tounge sound is misspelled
MC-249209 Frogs don't panic when tempted with their favorite food
MC-249260 Tadpoles are not tempted by slime balls
MC-249328 Frogs can jump around while being tempted with slimeballs
MC-249456 Tadpoles drop experience, unlike other baby mobs
MC-249619 The comparator frequency of sculk sensors when you are stepping on it is the last frequency it heard
MC-249711 Items collected off the ground by allays travel too high above their hitboxes
MC-249757 'It Spreads' advancement is not a child of 'Monster Hunter'
MC-249834 Swapping items to the player's off-hand can generate vibrations
MC-249980 The Birthday Song advancement description doesn't capitalise the word Cake
MC-250006 ID of the british cat doesn't match texture name
MC-250019 Sculk catalyst triggers when a villager converts into zombie villager by a zombie
MC-250317 The subtitle for picking up a Tadpole with a bucket is the generic "Bucket fills" subtitle
MC-250351 /tp "argument" duplicated on the tab options
MC-250919 The server crashes when attempting to load chunks that contain command blocks that consist of large numbers of characters within the previous output field
MC-250932 Goat horn subtitles are improperly capitalized
MC-250940 Goat horn playing isn't detected as a vibration
MC-251132 Server logs "Game test server" messages
MC-251312 Entity selectors in /say commands are no longer evaluated
MC-251355 Potted mangrove propagule model is incorrect
MC-251405 Structure Block messages are formatted as chat
MC-251479 Duplicate object key [lang file]
MC-251550 Failed to launch the game on 32-bit operating system
MC-251640 io.netty.handler.codec.EncoderException when using special characters in chat message
MC-251641 Game crash regarding warden anger
MC-251647 Chat closes itself if the control for Open Chat is set to Enter
MC-251649 Clicking "incomplete command" message removes / in chat
MC-251650 Iron golems can spawn on non spawnable blocks such as leaves, glass, sea lanterns, etc
MC-251652 Warden emerge/roar/sonic charge/dig animation (and possibly other similar animations) don't start unless the player looks at the Warden first
MC-251656 /say command fails to apply server message styling when sent from a command block, server console, or RCON, unlike /msg
MC-251690 Wardens can spawn on any non-full block, as long as it's solid
MC-251736 Reflected ghast fireball cannot hit the ghast
MC-251762 You can run commands with double slash prefix
MC-251773 The --dev argument for the data generators no longer converts NBT to SNBT properly

Minecraft 1.19 Pre-release 1