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That was the reaction we had as well. Mojang released 1.12.1 which was great because it contained a few bug fixes that slipped through in the 1.12 debut. What was even more surprising is, the launcher for Minecraft automatically picked up the 1.12.1 version and forced users into it without any warning. To top it off, again, there were some protocol changes which broke a half dozen plugins and they had to scramble to patch them. Not a big deal, but a lot of reactionary meas