what are the recent changes made

Under its current multi-year strategy, planned modernisations include updating the Book of Constitutions to suit a modern membership organisation, streamlining meetings, encouraging innovation, and enhancing member understanding of Masonic history and values, as the United Grand Lodge of England states.

Historically, major changes have occurred across several Orders. In the Craft, explicit Christian references were removed from the Constitutions and rituals following the 1813 Union of the Antient and Modern Grand Lodges, establishing a universal basis open to men of any faith believing in a Supreme Being 1. In 1847, the United Grand Lodge of England altered the candidate qualification from "free-born" to "free man" to enable emancipated men to be initiated into the fraternity 2. Within the Masonic Knights Templar, nineteenth-century reforms altered governing titles to Great Priories, replaced terms such as Encampment with Preceptory, and discontinued the designation "Masonic" from the official name of the Order 2.

Grand Lodges maintain inherent authority to amend regulations for the benefit of the fraternity, provided the ancient landmarks are preserved 3. While phraseology and ceremonial forms have been modified over time, the core symbolic foundations and philosophical principles are regarded as unalterable landmarks 2.