It looks like the Master Chief might be behaving a little nicer these days.
The ESRB video games rating board has assigned the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians a T for Teen rating, according to GameSpot. This makes it the first title in the main series to not get an M for Mature. Halo 5 comes out for Xbox One on October 27. The ESRB lists the content descriptors as blood, mild language, and violence.
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You can read the whole ESRB rating info for Halo 5 here.