Mellow

• Add support for blocks from the new "Winter drop"
• Add zh_CN translation (Credit to Notritsu)
• Godrays now turn bluer if you're underwater
• Water color takes into account biome color
• Moon light gets darker depending on the phase of the moon
• Fix a few bugs related to godrays

• Light sources now spread further, instead of completely fading out at light level 7
• Add bloom curve option, which allows you to control how much dim pixels contribute to bloom vs bright pixels
• Underwater fog now changes according to sunlight
• Rename some options in the settings menu
• Many bugfixes

Thank you for the 100k downloads! This update will probably break your config, please try resetting it if things look weird!

• Improved clouds. They're faster now too!
• Improved water normals. They're faster now too!
• Improved denoising of SSAO & water reflections
• Tweaked sunset colors
• Tweaked waving plants
• Bugfixes

This is probably going to be the last update for a while, as I want to start working on a different shader.

• Added godrays (lightshafts)
• Added motion blur
• Many bugfixes related to distant horizons
• Many bugfixes not related to distant horizons

• Distant horizons support
• Cloud lighting based on the position of the sun/moon
• Fix sunlight on optifine
• (Partial) compatibility with 1.8-1.16
• Improve quality of reflections in the distance

• Vastly improved water normals
• Border fog is now applied underwater too
• Water is now properly lit
• Improve quality & performance of reflections
• Add extra tonemap operators
• Slightly improve performance, espcially on the fast profile

This is the biggest update mellow has ever seen!

• Fixed gamma correction. Everything should feel brighter and more lively!
• Added shader water with normals, reflections, etc.
• Added screen space reflections (off by default)
• Revamped the settings menu. It now features 3 profiles: Fast, Fancy and Fabulous.
• Added SSAO (off by default)
• Many small changes and bugfixes

• Improved clouds shape. It should have way fewer artifacts now.
• Added vignette (off by default)
• Added night vision support
• Fixed enchantment glint on optifine
• Fixed end sky on optifine

• Reworked the end dimension
• Drastically improved the clouds, especially in rain
• Bloom is no longer blended additively, which resulted in objects getting very bright
• Small bugfixes

• Add TAA option
• Increased contrast and exposure a bit
• Custom stars
• Improved grass shading
• Fix clouds not rendering behind translucent objects
• Improved hadling of bright colors

• Added wavy blocks option
• Added lightmap-based shadows
• Tweaked the colors to be more "mellow"
• Adjusted sun/moon intensity
• Added more color grading options
• Performance improvements

• Improved clouds perfomance
• Added sky gradient. The sky is brighter around the sun now.
• Many small tweaks and bugfixes
• Improved the look of water
• Darkness and blindess support
• Handheld lights
• Ambient fog

• Handheld lights
• Improved clouds
• Improved night sky
• Improved water
• Made dark areas a little brighter

This will probably be the last beta release. I'm hoping to release v1.0 a few weeks from now.

• First version!