Minecraft Beta 1.7 was released on June 30, 2011 and received 3 minor bug fix releases ending with 1.7.3 on July 8. 1.7 is best known for adding shears and pistons, and 1.7.3 will form the basis for ...

Beta 1.8 was the first part of the Adventure Update and was the final major beta version to be officially released prior to version 1.0.0. It was released on September 14, 2011 and will form the basis ...