The 1.5 update is coming close! Mojang hopes to have a pre-release out this week.

Today's snapshot is 13w10a and has the following changelog:

  • [MC-122] Unicode font text shadow misaligned
  • [MC-3114] Activated detector-rails moved by a piston keep their activated state
  • [MC-3409] Single player mode, creative mode, E to select block, select block from grid, E to return to game, game freezess, crash log created
  • [MC-7254] Furnace Tile Entities reproducing – Internal performance bug
  • [MC-8022] Furnace interface occasionally closes when adding fuel, deleting all items in the furnace
  • [MC-8184] Redstone block and torches don't power dispensers, droppers, TNT and Noteblocks
  • [MC-8826] Adding an item to a hopper with a dropper does not change comparator state.
  • [MC-9460] Piston retracting disapears if pushed out by another piston
  • [MC-9534] Issues with Baby Cows' hitboxes
  • [MC-10543] Last Direct Multiplayerconnection does not get saved
  • [MC-10670] Hard Crash
  • [MC-10679] Hopper Cool-Down is messed up
  • [MC-10778] Slowness 127 and Speed 110 together flip view
  • [MC-10825] Using /clear on more than 1 player will stop clearing inventories once an empty inventory is encountered
  • [MC-10826] /me cannot use @p correctly
  • [MC-10889] updated redstone bug (detectorrail)
  • [MC-10900] "/scoreboard teams empty teamName" error message says "%s" instead of the team's name


You can download the client here: http://assets.minecraft.net/13w10a/minecraft.jar