India, Sept. 26 -- Minecraft 1.21.9 Release Candidate 1 is out, so we are at the final stretch before this version is live.

You can download this build using the Minecraft Launcher. This build has bug fixes, crash fix improvements, rendering changes, and server performance improvements. If no major issues are found in this version, it will be the official version. Players should back up their worlds before testing as this is your last chance for it not to be worth playing later this week (in the coming days for players in a different DST time zone).

The usual is that every Minecraft update goes through several phases of development. The last phase is the 'release candidate' phase. If there are no critical bugs in this version (this rele...