I was playing on Survival trying to survive starting in the Nether, in Pre-release 8. I was attacked by a Piglin with low hunger so health was not regenerating. Each hit from the Piglin's sword was doing 4 hearts of damage exactly, whereas before it was doing 4.5 hearts.
I switched to Hard Mode to test this out further, and where Piglins previously did 6.5 hears of damage per hit, they now did 6.
It's not been mentioned in any changelog which makes me think it is a bug rather than a silent Piglin nerf.
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Maybe the bug arose in Pre7. It's hard to tell with these pre-releases coming so fast. But compare it with any of the snapshot versions and you'll see.
I tried Pre-2 and 20w18a and recieved 6 hearts of damage on hard mode without armor from both piglins and zombie piglins.
Apologies for this. It turns out Piglins never did 4.5 hearts of damage on Normal.
I went back to an early snapshot (20w09a) and Piglins still did 4 hearts on Normal and 6 on Hard.
The Wiki said they did 4.5 on Normal and 6.5 on Hard, and as such I had a false memory of them doing such. It turns out they never did and the Wiki was wrong.
Could be cause by MC-190005 fix. You sure the piglins did not have enchanted swords? Which version were you playing on prior to Pre-8? I could not reproduce when comparing Pre-7 and Pre-8.