14 DAY TRIAL // A new development snapshot of Opera 10.70 is available for download, marking an important step toward synchronizing the build number for releases of Opera across all desktop platforms that the browser supports.
Opera releases are offered to Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users, and so far each flavor of the browser came with a different build number.
Moving forward, this will no longer be the case, according to the Norwegian browser maker.
What the company is proposing is that a single Build number will be associated with new releases of Opera, irrespective of the fact that they target Windows, Mac OS X or Linux.
However, Opera Software still has to do a little work before this move will be implemented. And this is evident with the latest development snapshot of Opera 10.70.
Early adopters running Windows now get to download and test drive Opera 10.70 Build 3486. Testers with OS X have available Opera 10.70 Build 9013 while Linux users can also test Opera 10.70 Build 9013.
The promise from Opera Software is that in the future the build numbers for all three flavors of the browser will end up coinciding.
“If you look at the build numbers, you will notice that Mac and Unix use the same number. We are currently working on synchronizing build numbers across desktop platforms, and this is the first step. Windows will hopefully follow in the near future,” a member of the Opera Desktop team explained.
Of course, fact is that as far as the next version of Opera is concerned, Opera Software has yet to decide on an actual version.
On more than one occasion the browser vendor underlined the fact that 10.70 is used only as a temporary version number.
The successor of Opera 10.60 could very well be labeled Opera 10.70 still, but it could also end up sporting a different, superseding version.
Opera 10.70 Build 3486 are available for download here.