In a blog post ominously titled "The future of Minecraft's development" this week, Mojang laid out the changes we can expect to its update schedule. The big one is that Minecraft is moving away from doing single, major game updates each summer in favor of smaller ones throughout the year and more frequent Minecraft Live presentations to match.
"We know that you want new Minecraft content more often, which is why we’re changing our feature development rhythm," Mojang says. "These game drops will vary in size and will bring you features to explore more frequently."
