The bug
Mobs can now spawn on regular ice in the newest snapshot 18w15a, which did not occur in 18w14b and 1.12.2. A lot of things were built upon the premise that mobs could not spawn on ice.
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This is probably caused by a feature in icebergs biomes that allows polar bears to spawn on regular ice.
Fixed. Polar bears will still be able to spawn on ice though (of course only in biomes where they spawn).
Also it's not raising up height map, so if you need mob spawn on it you need to make sure to have solid block in same subchunk.