Java Edition 1.18.1

1.18.1 is a minor update to , released on December 10, 2021, which makes minor changes related to fog and fixes bugs. It is compatible with 1.18 servers.
Most importantly, this version fixes a zero-day security vulnerability in the Log4j library that could be used to perform a remote code execution exploit. As a result, players were urged to secure their clients and servers.
While this wasn’t the last update to 1.18, it was the last one before the development versions of 1.19 started.
== Changes ==
=== General ===
; Fog
* World fog now starts farther away from the player, to make distant terrain more visible.
* Instead of applying fog as a spherical volume, it is now applied as a cylindrical volume.
== Fixes ==
; Other
* Fixed an issue that would cause players on low-bandwidth connections to get timeout errors when connecting to a server. 
* Fixed a critical security issue in which attackers are able to execute code on others' devices (RCE exploit) via in-game messaging or other methods where the game logs a certain exploitable string formatted as ${jndi:ldap://<url>}, due to an upstream vulnerability in log4j2. https://help.aliyun.com/noticelist/articleid/1060971232.html
== Trivia ==
* This was the last full version to be released in 2021.
*This is first time that minor updates received more than 2 release candidates.
*This version came out exactly 2 years after 1.15.
*This version came out after the final release candidate.
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