1.4.6 Patch Update + Snapshot 12W49A

[EternalDensity]

Other things I see being broke in 1.4.6. Despensers being a pain to place now...getting the same placing program as logs. And all the mods that enchant non weapons or use magic books having to do some fancy coding. To get around the new code.

I don't think dispensers should be an issue, as they aren't adding an upward-facing direction for fireworks.
I'm more worried about what all the fireworks recipes will do to NEI. I figure some changes must have been made to the crafting system to handle all the variations without having to manually account for crafting fireworks starts with differing numbers of dyes and different extra effect items; and crafting fireworks with different numbers of firework stars with different numbers of gunpowder...

 

[nicktonton]

Notch had a bad habit of pushing the version number higher and higher on old updates to apply quick fixes that often broke as much as they fixed. Any time I see the version number starting to creep higher and higher, I start having Notch bug fix flash-backs.

Almost all of Notch's work was on pre-releases. Frequent fixes and things going wrong is kind of the name of the game for games not fully released. As for the current development, the only serious bugs that are around for long are mostly annoying at worst. I think you may be getting this game confused with one that you payed a lot for or make annual payments towards.