5.35.0

Released 3rd October 2025.

This is a support release for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.21.111.

Plugin compatibility: Plugins for previous 5.x versions will run unchanged on this release, unless they use internal APIs, reflection, or packages like the pocketmine\network\mcpe or pocketmine\data namespace. Do not update plugin minimum API versions unless you need new features added in this release.

WARNING: If your plugin uses the pocketmine\network\mcpe namespace, you're not shielded by API change constraints. Consider using the mcpe-protocol directive in plugin.yml as a constraint if you're using packets directly.

Interim releases

If you're upgrading from 5.32.x directly to 5.35.0, please also read the following changelogs, as the interim releases contain important changes:

• 5.33.0 - internals improvements, API improvements and new gameplay features
• 5.34.0 - significant performance improvements, new gameplay features, new API additions and network changes

Please also note that an updated PHP binary is required due to changes introduced in 5.34.0 (initial ext-encoding integration).

General

• Added support for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.21.111 (@dries-c).
• Removed support for earlier versions.

5.35.1

Released 20th October 2025.

Fixes

• Fixed crash when using an almost-broken trident. (@dktapps)
• Fixed AABBs of squid, zombies and villagers not matching Bedrock. (@Wraith0x10).
• Fixed StringToItemParser->override() not updating results of lookupAliases(). (@dktapps, @RenzMc)
• Fixed players' on-ground state not updating correctly when noclip is enabled outside of Spectator mode. (@dktapps)

Documentation

• Added guidelines against copy-pasting AI code in CONTRIBUTING.md. (@dktapps)
• Simplified various parts of CONTRIBUTING.md to make it more readable. (@dktapps)

Internals

• PrepareEncryptionTask now checks the validity of the provided client public key in the constructor. This ensures earlier error reporting when used incorrectly. Previously it would crash during the AsyncTask, preventing the source of the error from being traced. (@dktapps)