Stealth Rules and updates..

[Istar]

So whats the system and format for rules updates these days.
They used to have those quarterly or half year rules updates, and these were scheduled, then they starting stealthing in rules changes to the basic manuals in the essentials manuals, and now I have sort of lost track.

Has there been a recent rules update and when is next one.

I would use D&D online for all of this, but the fun sites are banned at work so I just have to spend my free time perusing handbooks (outdated) and rules updates.

 

[mcmillan]

They do monthly updates, usually small changes, every once and a while there's some more significant ones. Yesterday was actually one of the minor updates. Last significant one mostly focused on giving rarity to a whole bunch of items. All updates are listed on the website here https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/updatesarchive