Hello, I will be telling you some useful tricks/facts about the new update.

Savannah biomes have horses and villages.

Witches have a small chance of spawning like normal mobs. "citation needed"

Swamp biomes look very different.

Oceans are a lot smaller.

Pufferfish can be brewed into potions of underwater breathing.

You can enchant fishing rods.

You can catch boots by fishing.

Watermelons spawn in jungle biomes.

You can make stained glass.

You can get minecart command blocks by using the give command.

You can set the player idle kick command.

Cactus was slightly re-textured.

Birch wood was slightly re-textured

They added dry oak wood and acacia "I think I misspelled that" wood.

They added tons of flowers.

They added a biome called Flower Forest.

They added a biome that is exactly the same as plains but with sunflowers.

Compact Ice never melts.

They added achievements that involves the wither.

The ocean floor is all gravel.

The achievements are announced once gotten.

The announcement for the achievement Benchmaking is spelled Benchmarking

There is much more but this is just off the top of my head. So quit staring at this blog and go play the update.