Jens has today revealed one of the biggest reasons behind the unfortunate Minecraft beta 1.8 delay.
Jens revealed that a major bug that crashes the game was found on both the java and Minecraft launcher versions. He has managed to locate the problem and publicized that the “crash bug doesn’t occur at normal render distance, so somewhere we are trying to render too many items”.
While he didn’t mention if it was the only problem, hopefully it is so there isn’t another delay.