When Google released the well overdue Penguin 3.0 back in October of last year, we thought that would bring a faster running and more regularly and frequently updated refreshes to the algorithm. But the truth is, we have not seen an update to Penguin since early December – so for about three months now. Prior to that, it was over a year since we had a Penguin update.

Josh in a Google+ hangout asked John Mueller about that and John said at 20:54:

He is probably right, if there was a Penguin refresh, I would have seen it and tracked it, just like with Panda not updating.

When will we see a Penguin refresh? I have no idea. When will we see a Panda refresh? I have no idea.

Here is the video at the start of the question:

Forum discussion at Google+.