You can now place sugarcane underwater if it is not adjacent to another block and there is water adjacent to the block it is growing from.
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this bug is already known, exisits since 1.13

*since before 1.13

really? before 1.13? never noticed that

Since 1.4; see MC-929

And it is and always has been intended.