The Minecraft 1.8 update, which is also known as "The Bountiful Update," has been finally released.

This was confirmed by Mojang, the creators of Minecraft, on Tuesday September, 2.

The update was pre-released in three parts in August, but Tuesday marked to official complete release of "The Bountiful Update." In other words, now the update will download automatically and, thereby, push Minecraft into version 1.8.

Mojang has been working on the update for more than 300 days now, which has been the longest amount of time spend on a patch so far.

According to the developer, the update is a result of "many, many changes" comprising both new features, as well as large changes in the game's structure, such as changing the hard-coded "block renderer" and replacing them with a system that can read block shapes from data files, or performance enhancements like multi-threading the client-side chunk rendering.

The complete patch notes are posted below:

Added Armor Stands

Added Banners

Added Coarse Dirt (dirt where grass won't grow)

Added Endermite mob

Added Granite, Andesite, and Diorite stone blocks, with smooth versions

Added Guardian mobs, with item drops

Added Iron Trapdoor

Added Mutton and Cooked Mutton

Added Prismarine and Sea Lantern blocks

Added Rabbits, with item drops

Added Red Sandstone

Added Slime Block

Added the Ocean Monument

Added /blockdata command

Added /clone command

Added /execute command

Added /fill command

Added /particle command

Added /testforblocks command

Added /title command

Added /trigger command

Added /worldborder command

Added /stats command

Added a spectator game mode (game mode 3)

Added one new achievement

Added "Customized" world type

Added hidden "Debug Mode" world type

Worlds can now have a world barrier

Added @e target selector for Command Blocks

Chiseled Stone Bricks are now craftable

Doors and fences now come in all wood type variants

Villagers will harvest crops and plant new ones

Mossy Cobblestone and Mossy Stone Bricks are now craftable

Sponge block has regained its water-absorbing ability and becomes wet

In fact, there are plenty of other changes and bug fixes, details of which are listed on the official website of Mojang.

Meanwhile, Mojang has submitted the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One editions of Minecraft to their respective platform holder for final testing.