Minecraft 1.9 Pre-release Beta 3 for servers http://bit.ly/mOJip1 (hinting at Teddi) And for everyone else...http://bit.ly/qWJs7L New Features http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/651591-19-new-features-official-report-on-new-features/
Beta 3 was just released, updated first post with new links. You can now brew potions! Along with a ton of other features.
Sounds awesome but I'll wait for the official release, by then he'll crunch out major bugs and I won't have to destroy my client for the beta version.