Education Edition 1.18.31.0

v1.18.31.0

Edition	Education Edition
Release date	July 14, 2022
Internal version	Windows: 1.18.3100.0 ChromeOS: 1.18.31.0
Type	Beta
Beta for	1.18.32
Protocol version	503
◄◄  1.17.32 1.18.32 1.18.42 ►► ◄  1.18.30.0 1.18.31.0

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1.18.31.0 is the third and final beta version for Education Edition 1.18.32, released on July 14, 2022. This update enabled new rendering engine RenderDragon to Education Edition and brought technical changes to WebSocket.

Additions

General

RenderDragon

• Now uses the new rendering engine RenderDragon.

Changes

Technical

WebSocket

• JSON format for events sent from WebSocket server and Code Builder APIs updated to hierarchical JSON format.
• Less useful properties removed, block and item IDs switched to name-based format instead of numerical format.
• Agent commands in WebSockets moved to new "action:agent" format, all commands are queued and include unique IDs to correlate responses.
• Any future breaking changes to websocket and Code Builder APIs will now result in the "protocolVersion" being incremented.