In my survival world, in the newest prerelease (and even before), sometimes the arrows will bounce off of mobs when shooting them with a bow, usually happens to mobs in motions, most recently phantoms, though I had multiple instances of it happening to ground mobs as well.
Unsure what causes this, but it happens so often that the frustration itself led me to report it. The issue happens inconsistently so its hard to pinpoint what causes it, my guess would be something to do with movement. Hope the report helps.
Environment
Overworld, Survival Mode, No mods. Only modification to the world was the slower daylight cycle (command added in the newest snapshot) and the Nether portals being disabled.
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