i am confirming this is fixed in pre 2 and in fact seemingly faster than prior versions.
kudos mojangles
thats good to hear Wiggles, i will be doing my own testing tonight (aest) to see if it is fixed.
Loupieur, no lag, no latency server is hosted on my own pc neither game nor server freezes, seems to take longer on better hardware. and only this update
1.21.6 Pre release 2 having this happen as well, server was empty and paused right before line 1 below.