It’s been a little bit over a month since Mojang released the latest patch for Minecraft, which, in fact, addressed a security issue introduced by a previous update.
For those of you unaware, patch 1.8 added a vulnerability that would allow players to remotely crash servers. The security flaw was discovered and reported by a programmer, and Mojang took care of it quite fast by delivering patch 1.8.4.
Today, another security patch has been released by Mojang, and it addresses more issues found and reported by Minecraft players.
First of all, Mojang has confirmed that this patch is fully compatible with all previous 1.8 versions, including 1.8.4 that was delivered a month ago. Here is the full changelog for Minecraft 1.8.5 patch:
– [Bug MC-79632] – Phantom Custom Player in Scoreboard / UUIDs of non-player entities on scoreboards truncated after relog;
– [Bug MC-75630] – Exploit with signs and command blocks;
– [Bug MC-80478] – Better server validation for movement packets;
– [Bug MC-80479] – Invalid beacon effects are not validated;
– [Bug MC-80480] – Certain attribute values are not bound.
If you’re afraid that this patch might bring more problems for Minecraft, then you should stop worrying, as Mojang highly recommends players to update to 1.8.5 as soon as possible.
That makes perfect sense since this is a security release, which is meant to patch up some security flaws that either developers or players found in Minecraft.
Obviously, should you find any more issues after upgrading to version 1.8.5, then you should definitely report them using the Minecraft issue tracker.
Keep in mind that Minecraft 1.8.5 patch is available for download in your launcher. Still, feel free to download the .jar file manually if that’s what you want.
Here, Youtuber MineplexOfficial painstakingly put together what looks to be the first of a new series “Minecraft Rap Battles”. The video stars Batman, with adversaries Joker and Bane going against eachother, slinging words. “This Minecraft music parody took me 15 hours to make,” MinePlex said in the video desciption, “but was so much fun, I want to do more!”
Liking/not liking the actual rap aside, taking 15 hours to make a three minute video is strong dedication, no matter how you look at it.
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The Mozart Academy has adapted J.K. Rowling’s world famous book “Harry Potter” for the opera stage, with proceeds from the production used to help children.
The Mozart Academy, founded by opera artist İlhan Cinpir in İzmir, made selections last September and gave chorus, theater and dance education to the successful applicants. Eighty students who successfully passed the education have won a role in the Harry Potter opera.
In the cast, Berlin Komische Opera soloist tenor Tansel Akzeybek plays the role of Harry Potter, Teyfik Rodos plays Professor Dumbledore, Serkan Kocadere plays Lord Voldemort, Nurdan Küçükekmekçi Aydın plays Lily Potter, Christopher Varas plays Severus Snape, Burak Dabakoğlu plays Ron, Bahar Çorbacı plays Hermione, Hülya Şahin plays Professor Minerva and Mehmet Alp Özkazanç plays Hagrid.
The libretto of the opera was written by Ali Hoca and it is directed by Murat Göksu. The choir conductor is Fatma Cinpir and the choreographer is Alicia Haydee Varela.
The single-act opera, which mainly features sections from the first and final books, lasts nearly 75 minutes.
The general director of the opera, İlhan Cinpir, said Harry Potter had not been adapted into an opera before, although the material was very suitable.
He said they had contacted Rowling to adapt the book into an opera, and she gave permission with the condition that its income would be spent for the benefit of children.
Cinpir said they first got permission for a single show but then increased it, adding, “After a long rehearsal process, a single show would cause disappointment for the children. This is why we increased the number of shows to six.”
The first and second shows were recently staged. Cinpir said they also wanted to perform two shows abroad if they received enough demand.
The proceeds of the shows in İzmir will be donated to Elmadere village in the province, which suffered big losses in the mine disaster last year in Soma. Also, the necessary tools will be provided to the Turkish Library for the Blind to help blind children read books.
Tenor Tansel Akzeybek, 37, who plays Harry Potter in the opera, said he was not a member of the generation who grew up with Harry Potter, but he watched the series after he got the proposal.
“The children that we act together with know everything about Potter. They show us our mistakes; warn us about make-up.”
Another of the Harry Potter pictures from the new Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Illustrated Edition has been released. What do you think?
The image shows Harry Potter in the cupboard under the stairs where the Dursleys make him sleep.
All the artwork for the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Illustrated Edition has been created by Jim Kay, who won the Kate Greenaway medal in 2012 for his illustrations in A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (read about how Patrick and Jim created that book and look at a gallery of Jim’s illustrations). The front cover image shows Harry Potter beside the Hogwarts Express.
Back in December 2013 Jim Kay told us how he would tackle the illustrations and described the feeling of “an implosion of brain-freezing terror” he had when he was chosen as the new Harry Potter artist.
The book will be published on 6 October 2015.
Revealed: new image from illustrated Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone