"Servers can automatically suggest and distribute texture packs"; Wait, what? xD that'll be interesting
"Improved Creative mode inventory"; Mmmmmmm...
"Added hardcore difficulty: Players are banned upon death"; That will also be interesting, lol.
"Blocks other players are mining now show cracks - Screenshot"; That's cool.
"Individual, stackable items near each other on the ground now become one item stack"; This will make things 100x less laggy! Love it.
"Removed the downwards knockback while drowning"; THANK YOU!
"Doors being broken by zombies now show their damage - Screenshot"; That's cool too.
"Fixed liquids slowing down flying players"; Thank God for that! xD
"Fixed boats & minecarts not being one-hit breakable in Creative"; And that xD
"Fixed raw fish, dyes, saddles, potions, milk buckets and tools depleting in Creative"; This too
"Fixed being able to duplicate sand, gravel and powered rail"; Didn't know you could dupe powered rail, but glad there will be no more sand/gravel machines
"Fixed TNT dropping as a resource on creative mode"; That got annoying...
"Fixed arrows scooting up to the top of the block they were shot on"; That bugged me
"Fixed endermen not opening their jaws"; Woo! Creepy Endermen in multiplayer.
"Fixed fully charged arrows not showing their particle effect"; Never noticed...
"Fixed enchanted armor and tools not glowing to other players"; Niiice!
"Nether portal: Leaks into the Overworld now: Depending on difficulty, zombie pigmen rarely spawn in them"; Whoa... that's interesting!
"Wooden pressure plates: Are triggered by arrows now"; Something for the Challenge World me thinks
"Empty buckets: Stack up to 16 now"; YES!
"Signs: Stack up to 16 now"; YES!

That's what I'm excited about xD

Tunes thank you for the effort you do to maintain the server

No worries, even not being able to be there the time I want, I'm still a gamer and and I do like to maintain it and see it full and people having fun and fighting all over the place

soo, 2nd August is already in my business calendar, all day, no excuses, basically, besides what is done in the other maps, the server will be rebuilt from the ground, groups, permissions, plugins, etc.

This'll be fun. Getting to do some proper work behind the scenes on the server

I'm excited

Can't wait to flex my creative muscle again building a new hideout (lol ME hide! bwa ahhahaa)

Probably won't be on when you guys are all huddled up on the 2nd, with work and the time difference. However, I will be on when I can, so somebody take notes for me

They made enchanting levels WAAAY to easy, I got 15 levels in the first 20 minutes on a vanilla minecraft SINGLE PLAYER. Just from mining coal.

I'm pretty sure they nerfed levels from ores quite a bit. Seems to be from trying out some of the more recent snapshot updates.