You can now close your elytra mid-air by sneaking.

This was removed due to a few too many accidental closures. Fun feature, but armor swapping is the better modern equivalent.

History

1.0.0X

Do I even have to say why sneaking making your elytra close mid-air, causing you to suddenly plummet, is a bad idea?

0.3.0*

Elytra now show a actionbar message when you close them midair, so you know when you’re starting to plummet to your death

0.2.0+

You can now close your elytra mid-air to go into freefall by shifting. This allows for some cool tricks.