User blog:Agent Spy/0.8.0 News!

So here's everything that's confirmed so far for 0.8.0,

Additions:

Blocks:

Pumpkins

Birch and Spruce Planks, Slabs, and Stairs

Rails

Powered Rails (always powered)

Cobblestone Walls

Iron Bars

Creative-Only Blocks:

Possibly Ice

Sponge

Jungle Planks, Slabs, and Stairs

Farmable:

Carrots

Potatoes

Pumpkins

Items:

Minecarts

Redstone (mineable and used to craft, but can't be used as Redstone dust until after 0.9.0)

Foods:

Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Seeds

Carrots

Potatoes

Tweaks:

Improvements to Creative Inventory
 * New Creative Menu along with new blocks.
 * Flint and Steel in creative inventory.

World Generation:

Improved the terrain.png file, making it possible to add more blocks.

Options:

Far render distance [13]

Controls:

Possibly new Controls which can allow Sneaking and Sprinting.

Mobs:

Mob AI System (Mobs will swim over deep water, and hostile mobs will be more intelligent)

Blocks:

Redstone Ore now drops Redstone Dust when mined

Fire and lava will now ignite TNT.

Sideways pointing wood blocks

Inventory:

Possibly new survival inventory

Transparent hotbar

Graphics:

Shadows now move depending on the position of the Sun (exclusive feature)
 * Tommaso said on Reddit that "it looks bad", and thus may not be added.

Lighter colored Water and Sky
 * The sea fades to non-transparent in the distance

Improved sky color

Possibly smooth day-to-night transitions and tinted lighting 3D Clouds

Textures:

Changed Gravel texture to the Minecraft PC texture.

Changed Birch Leaves texture to the Minecraft PC texture.

Mipmaps and anisotropic filtering

Bug Fixes:

MCPE-347: Weird textures: Moiré pattern on bricks

MCPE-61: Water flows downward next to farmland

MCPE-2804: Fire doesn't ignite TNT

MCPE-4736: Spiders have no abdomen

MCPE-4887: Skeleton missing lower part of body

MCPE-5359: Blocks in hand have no backface culling

MCPE-1524: Graphical glitch when looking down above clouds

MCPE-5411: Falling in creative on world load