Alpha 5
Released 2013-12-13. The official release notes.
Alpha 5
General
Added new higher quality deferred lighting and checkbox in video options to switch it on and off for low and high end computers
Added new clouds, sun color and fog color spectrums so each biome is unique
Added biome transitions so they blend between colors smoothly
Added the ability for dogs to get through 1 meter holes
Added new zombie crawlerwho crawls on the ground and can get through 1 meter block holes
Added water specular highlights for sun/moon
Added empty tin cans to loot
Add 4th ultra shadow distance setting of 80-90 blocks
Added Allow friend invites from dedicated server
Added SteamID for banning and file saving
Added new game options for zombies running always, never and default run night walk day
Added new organic particle for destroying corpses
Added buckshot item which can be crafted from lead ingots
Added feathers & shotguns to zombie loot
Weapons and Items
Added Sandstone recipe
Added Scrap Metal recipe from Empty Cans
Added recipes for Gas Cans from Corn Meal and Bottled Water
Added recipes for Oil Barrels from Gas Cans
Sound
Added new destroy organic sound set so destroying corpses makes the right sounds
Added new footstep organic sound set so walking over corpses sounds squishy
Added new loot safe, loot stump, loot suitcase and loot corpse sounds and Integrated new loot sounds
Added new organic material so corpses play the correct impact sounds
Bugs
Some player hosted games still have incompatible NAT routers preventing other players from joining. A quick solution is try and let your friend host instead
Runaway console and browser join issues
Input string was not in correct format console hijacking bug
Password popup screen to hold proper game information to connect to upon entering password
Game Name and Game Host max length are both now 25 characters to stop dedicated servers from having too long of a gameinfo string