Minecraft news » Weekly Pre-Releases Scheduled

Jeb recently stated that Mojang plans on doing weekly "snapshot" pre-releases for players to test. The pre-release builds are patched much as before - you must manually copy the test .jar over your existing one - and aim to playtest various fixes, additions and such to future official releases. You can test this week's pre-release by downloading the .jar file here, and copying the downloaded file over your current minecraft.jar file.

Jeb notes that this pre-release is very close to what version 1.0.1 will be - feel free to test it out and offer feedback!