We thought it was going to be a little further off, but no - Mojang has decided that you can play Minecraft 1.19 right now. As long as you don't mind digging into a very experimental beta version, ...

We've already had an experimental snapshot for Minecraft's next major update, but now the regular 1.19 snapshot series has arrived with snapshot 22w11a. That means that the Minecraft devs at Mojang ...

Now a new Minecraft update is on the horizon, we’ve started getting weekly snapshots through again. However, things aren’t quite as they seem. Although 1.20 is the new major update that’s being worked ...