Minecraft Pocket Edition 0.12.1 is Out

Minecraft Pocket Edition 0.12.1 is now available for iOS, FireOS, Windows Phone and Windows 10. It should be also available for Android very soon.

*UPDATE* : MCPE 0.12.1 is also available for Android on 10th September.

You can find all MCPE 0.12.1 servers here : http://minecraftpocket-servers.com/version/0_12_1_alpha/

Additions

General

• Cross platform play for up to five players between Pocket Edition and Windows 10
• Controller and keyboard support
  • Can change controls within options.
• Options
  • Option to reverse the location of the Sneak and Jump button.
  • The jump button has been moved to the right side of the screen.
    • Added a sneaking button in place of where the current jump button is.
      • These are the new default controls.
  • Option to disable the auto-jump feature.
  • Added camera mode slider on options (First-person, Third-person, Front third-person).
  • FOV option slider.
• New interact buttons
  • Feed
    • Used when breeding mobs
    • The "feed" button did exist for breeding wolves; now it exists for all mobs
• Particles
  • angryVillager
  • largeexplode
  • hugeexplode
  • blockdust
  • slime
  • enchantementtable
  • droplet
  • snowshovel
  • Added falling particles.

Gameplay

• Hunger
• Experience
• Weather
  • Rain
  • Snowfall
  • Thunderstorm
• Sprinting and sneaking
• More difficulty modes
  • Peaceful
  • Easy
  • Normal
  • Hard
• Animation for switching blocks and items.
• Critical hits
• Enchanting
• Brewing

Blocks

• Enchantment table
  • Version exclusive: Book on table glows.
• Anvils
  • All 3 damage types
• Brewing stand
• Mob head
  • Inventory icons are not 3D.
  • Wither cannot yet be created.
• Flower pot
• Soul sand
• Nether brick fence
• Nether brick slab
• Nether quartz ore

Items

• Glass bottles
• Potion
  • Splash potion
• Gold nugget
• Golden carrot
• Nether wart
• Glistering melon
• Golden apple
• Enchanted golden apple
• Rabbit's foot (creative only as rabbits have not been added yet)
• Blaze rod
• Blaze powder
• Ghast tear
• Spider eye
• Fermented spider eye
• Bottle o' enchanting (creative only as villager trading has not been added yet)
• Poisonous potato
• Enchanted books

Creative inventory additions

• Spawn eggs:
  • Ghast
  • Blaze
  • Ocelot
• Glowstone dust
• Gunpowder
• Redstone dust (brewing only)
• Slimeball
• Sugar
• Magma cream
• Apple
• Coal
• Charcoal
• Iron ingot
• Gold ingot
• Emerald
• Diamond
• Raw porkchop
• Cooked porkchop
• Steak
• Raw chicken
• Cooked chicken
• Baked potato
• Bread
• String
• Stick
• Beetroot
• Beetroot soup
• Mushroom soup
• Packed ice
• Boats:
  • Spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak variants
• Leather armor
• Chain armor
• Iron armor
• Gold armor
• Diamond armor

World generation

• The Nether
  • Nether portals can also be up to 23x23 in size.
  • All items previously obtained through the Nether reactor are now available through their normal means.
• Nether fortresses

Mobs

• Iron golems
• Snow golems
  • Version exclusive: Shows jack o' lantern as the head if used for building, in place of the pumpkin.
  • Version exclusive: The pumpkin can be removed using shears, revealing the face of the snow golem.
• Ocelots
• Zombie villagers
  • PC 1.9 feature: Villagers retain their profession and clothes, which appear tattered, and have green wart on their noses.
  • Baby zombie villagers
• Blazes
• Wither skeletons
• Charged creepers
  • Spawned when a lightning bolt strikes a creeper during a thunderstorm.

Changes

General

• Graphics
  • Tinted water - gradient from aqua to dark blue when viewed from a distance.
  • New explosion particles.
  • Particles are no longer dark when inside of a block.
  • Cactus particles are now correct.
  • Version exclusive: Leaves in snowy taigas now appear frost-covered.
  • Only uses the leaves coloring shaders when the color for a biome actually changes.
  • Only samples the lightmap texture for non-transparent pixels.
• Scrollbar
  • Always visible
  • New texture
• The player can now swim in lava.
• Updated sounds
  • Changed the volume of some sounds.
  • New sound for dying skeletons and wither skeletons.
  • Digging and walking sounds are now the same as PC.
  • Damage sounds changed to that of the PC version.
  • Fishing rod now makes a less repetitive sound.
  • Ladders now make sounds when climbing.
  • Water and lava now make sounds when flowing.
• Name tags are visible from farther away now.
• New random seed algorithm.
• Better ordering on chunk scheduling.
• Options
  • Third person view switch replaced with a slider bar, with 3 options:
    • Option 1 - first person view
    • Option 2 - third person view
    • Option 3 - frontal face view
  • Renamed D-Pad size slider to "Button size".
• Custom server IPs must be unique.
• Relocated pause and chat button. ^{(survival only)}
• Trying to connect to old versions of the game will now show an error message.

Gameplay

• Controls
  • Flight controls are now slightly smaller.
• Chat
  • The player can now use the chat while in a bed.
• Slight jump delay when jumping in a small space.
• Blocks can now be placed underneath player while sneaking.

World generation

Villages

• Now spawn with only wheat + one other crop instead of all crops.
• Now spawn with beetroot crops.
• Will now spawn iron golems

Blocks

Nether reactor

• Uncraftable
• Removed from the crafting menu and the creative inventory.
• Still provides drops when broken (3 diamonds and 6 iron ingots).
• Only obtainable via inventory editing.

Furnace

• Centered the result name in the furnace.

Snow layer

• Version exclusive: Builds up multiple layers naturally through snowfall.
• Version exclusive: Are now affected by gravity.

Crops

• Breaking crops will now always drop seeds.

Lava

• Version exclusive: Now appears brighter.
• Now prevents fall damage.
• When in the Nether, now flows like on PC.

Water

• Can now be used to make water bottles.
• Improved water climbing against a wall.

Door

• Can now be stacked up to 64.
• Crafting now produces 3 doors rather than 1.

Packed ice

• New texture:

Quartz pillars

• Can now be placed horizontally.

Dead bush

• Now has a chance to drop sticks when broken.

End portal frame

• Now rotate based on the direction they were placed.

Trapdoors

• Can now be placed on bottom and top side of a block.

Items

Boat

• New inventory icons.
  • Now include paddles.
  • Different boat types' items now are their respective color.

Food

• Now restores hunger instead of health.

Pufferfish

• Now inflicts the following status effects:
  • 
    Poison IV (1:00)
  • 
    Hunger III (0:15)
  • 
    Nausea (0:15)

All rotten foods

• Now inflict the player with
  Hunger due to the addition of hunger, rather than
  Poison in 0.11.0.

Beetroot

• Beetroot crops can be obtained from village farms.
• Beetroot seeds can no longer be obtained by tilling grass blocks.

Seeds

• Seeds can no longer be obtained by tilling grass blocks.

Book

• Now use the updated crafting recipe including leather.

Spawn egg

• Mobs spawned from renamed eggs have the name of the egg and the names will appear in death messages.
• Zombie spawn eggs now have a chance to spawn zombie villagers.

Mobs

All mobs

• Burning mobs have a sizzling particle effect once extinguished.
• Mobs now drop experience when killed.
• Improved pathfinding of mobs inside fences.

Zombie

• Now wears different armor and can hold items.
• Now drops weapons and armor rarely.
• Can now break down doors.
• Drops its head if killed by a charged creeper.
• Now able to detect the player up to 40 blocks.

Skeleton

• Now wears different armor and can hold items.
• Improved accuracy.
• Now drops weapons and armor rarely.
• Can turn into a wither skeleton if spawned in the Nether.
• Drops its head if killed by a charged creeper.
• Death sound changed to that of PC.

Creeper

• Now turn into charged creepers when struck by lightning.
• Run away from ocelots (wild and tamed variants).

Slime

• Now have particles when jumping.

Magma cube

• Now spawn in the Nether.
• Magma cubes now split when killed.

Zombie pigman

• Now neutral rather than hostile.
• Now spawns in the Nether.
• Now wears armor and can hold items.
• Now drops swords and armor rarely.
• Now drops gold nuggets.
• Have a chance to spawn with enchanted swords.

Villager

• Can now open and close doors.
• Can now harvest crops.
• Can now breed.
• Now has angry particles if attacked by the player.
• Now always become zombie villagers in Hard difficulty.

Spider

• Now have a walking sound.
• Now drops spider eyes.

Cave Spider

• Now has a walking sound.
• Now drops spider eyes.

Ghast

• Now spawns in the Nether.
• Now drops ghast tears.
• Now makes sounds and noises.
• Increased size of hitbox.

Pig

• Now turns into zombie pigman when struck by lightning.

Wolves

• Tamed wolves now attack target when it was hit with a bow.

Silverfish

• No longer makes sounds while moving.

Fixes

72 bugs fixed

• Touchpad implementation fixed on the Sony Xperia Play

From released versions before 0.12.1

• MCPE-3671 – You can't get out of lava
• MCPE-4202 - Sounds on Android devices are incorrect
• MCPE-5200 - Bug while mining/breaking blocks (Touch and Split Controls)
• MCPE-5541 - cant place pillar quartz blocks sideways
• MCPE-6263 - Bow don't have particles in full charge.
• MCPE-6806 - Automatic Flying Bug
• MCPE-6854 - Auto jump not working with carpet
• MCPE-6882 - Finger free mining bug.
• MCPE-6886 - Wrong Crops Sound
• MCPE-6998 - When tapping the leftmost box in hotbar while walking forward, you walk backwards-left a bit.
• MCPE-7745 - Acacia and dark oak trees act like ladders
• MCPE-7873 - Baby pigs can pass trough slabs
• MCPE-7880 - Hotbar size decreases when on split controls
• MCPE-7878 - Cobblestone generators don't work for other players in Local Server Multiplayer
• MCPE-7899 - painting de_aztec (or Aztec) does not exist in the game
• MCPE-7901 - jungle leaves x-ray bug
• MCPE-7914 - Putting out fire in creative mode
• MCPE-7917 - Jumping mobs
• MCPE-7921 - Inventory Armor Section Bug!
• MCPE-7925 - Red Sand Suffocation
• MCPE-7951 - 2x2 Jungle trees leaves disapear when you grow them artificially (bonemeal)
• MCPE-7975 - Burning fuel icon not decreasing when the world is closed and reopened
• MCPE-7977 - Upper slabs cause top leaf texture to disappear
• MCPE-7996 - Monster spawners only spawn mobs with data value 0
• MCPE-8000 - Mesas generate on top of water bodies in Bryce mesa biomes
• MCPE-8006 - Skeletons arrows bounce off
• MCPE-8098 - Water and Lava disappear when switching view distances
• MCPE-8146 - Redstone Ore doesn't give off particles.
• MCPE-8149 - Heavy shading on water blocks at the world border
• MCPE-8154 - Mining consecutive redstone ore blocks does not light each block as they are being mined
• MCPE-8166 - Lava can tick through walls
• MCPE-8372 - Fishing rod and flying glitch
• MCPE-8376 - Wrong Magma Cream Name
• MCPE-8377 - Magma Cubes Do Not Split
• MCPE-8392 - Lighting glitch when standing under a door
• MCPE-8412 - Block selection overlay is only visible on one side of a texture
• MCPE-8422 - Villager professions not showing correctly on client
• MCPE-8466 - Mob pathfinding considers the void to be a solid platform
• MCPE-8517 - Dogs (tamed wolves) cannot be healed to full health
• MCPE-8522 - Falling beyond bedrock into void
• MCPE-8572 - Baby animals can grow up in fences-type blocks and escape their pen
• MCPE-8575 - Skeletons Aim is off
• MCPE-8604 - Zombies think that slabs are full blocks
• MCPE-8605 - Eating raw chicken gives you hunger?
• MCPE-8606 - Water can turn lava into obsidian from underneath.
• MCPE-8615 - View Bobbing Automatically defaults to on after restarting the app
• MCPE-8628 - Egg shows snowball particles when thrown
• MCPE-8630 - Fishing bobber (bait or lure) burns forever
• MCPE-8641 - LAN Mid-Air glitch
• MCPE-8654 - Wrong text when selecting which model to use with your custom skin
• MCPE-8665 - Furnaces are facing wrong direction in village blacksmiths
• MCPE-8670 - World crashes on load
• MCPE-8676 - Mobs get stuck atop the border wall
• MCPE-8702 - Baby zombie pigmen
• MCPE-8707 - Double-tall flowers do not drop items when mined
• MCPE-8826 - Chunks near to and of mushroom island biomes do not generate
• MCPE-8853 - Carpet duplication when trying to place it where it cannot be placed
• MCPE-8855 - Minecarts Wrong View when riding it down
• MCPE-8881 - Baby chickens die in boats
• MCPE-8961 - Cobwebs can't be broken by water
• MCPE-8974 - After mobs get out of fire, they do not continue to burn
• MCPE-9062 - Nether Reactor gives wrong message
• MCPE-9073 - Vegetation generates through structures
• MCPE-9150 - Unable to scroll a newly selected language off of the language menu screen
• MCPE-9251 - Infinite Boat Rowing Bug
• MCPE-9254 - Bow glitch
• MCPE-9630 - No 32 bit support
• MCPE-9930 - Lava-Don't stop fall damage

From the 0.11.0 development versions

• MCPE-8333 - Not translate in RU lang for blocks
• MCPE-8359 - Custom Skins Crash
• MCPE-8365 - Wrong death position-VIDEO

Source : http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Pocket_Edition_Alpha_0.12.1