The 0.5.0 update for Minecraft Pocket Edition has been sent out for review and hopes to be made available by mid-November.
(via Mojang)
New features:
Paintings
Mushroom farming
Melons
Zombie pigmen
Nether Reactor
Glowstone
Tweaks:
Restore hearts when sleeping in bed
Food now restores more health
Tweaked the fog to make the game less foggy
It is now easier to get out a bed
Bug fixes:
The game could crash when loading a saved game [MCPE-442]
Animals would sometimes never respawn in a map [MCPE-272]
Using an item could sometimes attack animals/players when not facing them [MCPE-269]
Spawning by a bed sometimes resulted in the player being several floors up from it [MCPE-51]
Seeds would drop below grass block when using the hoe [MCPE-7]
About 25 additional bug fixes
Paintings
Mushroom farming
Melons
Zombie pigmen
Nether Reactor
Glowstone
Tweaks:
Restore hearts when sleeping in bed
Food now restores more health
Tweaked the fog to make the game less foggy
It is now easier to get out a bed
Bug fixes:
The game could crash when loading a saved game [MCPE-442]
Animals would sometimes never respawn in a map [MCPE-272]
Using an item could sometimes attack animals/players when not facing them [MCPE-269]
Spawning by a bed sometimes resulted in the player being several floors up from it [MCPE-51]
Seeds would drop below grass block when using the hoe [MCPE-7]
About 25 additional bug fixes
(via Mojang)