[Sorontar]

Surprise surprise, they have found bugs with the pre-release. Now there is pre-release 1.4.1 and the release date has been pushed to Oct 25 (http://www.mojang.com/2012/10/minecr...pre-release/):

• Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_4_1/minecraft.jar
• Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_4_1/minecraft_server.jar (or EXE)

Features:

• Fixed mobs glitching through wooden floors
• Fixed players glitching through Beacons
• Fixed Redstone Repeaters getting stuck in ‘on’ state
• Bats spawn less frequently
• A number of minor font fixes
• Activated the Wither painting
• Fixed wet wolves looking way too scary
• Tweaked naming costs in the Anvil
• Tweaked enchantment points reward for smelting
• Fixed bug that allowed any item to be placed in the armor slots
• Fixed mob spawners spawning too quickly