The newest update coming to Minecraft for a long time was known as a single update by the name Caves & Cliffs. Today, developers at Mojang announced that that will no longer be the case. Instead, the release will be split into two separate releases: The Caves & Cliffs Summer Update and the Caves & Cliffs Holiday Update.
The reasons for this are one, quality assurance. It’s the biggest update they’ve done and they want to release it without too many bugs. Another reason is technological difficulties, and making sure that people can update their old Minecraft worlds to the new version. Lastly, is company health. The developers made the right choice of delaying their release, rather than crunching their dev team. We for one would like to see this decision made more often.