While Opera Software has rebalanced its resources moving forward with the evolution of Opera beyond version 10.0, the company has yet to deliver the final release of v10.10. Today, November 5th, 2009, a new development milestone of Opera 10.10 with Unite has been made available for download. For the time being, Opera 10.10 continues to be in the Beta development stage, with no indications from the Norway-based browser maker as to when it plans to offer the Release Candidate Build or when it will finalize version 10.10.

“Since I'm involved in UNIX/Linux testing it seems appropriate that I should be the one to announce a snapshot with some nice UNIX fixes. Firstly it seems we got around the Qt 4.5.3+ 100% CPU issue. Also a fix for freezes during DST-to-normal time switch. Finally, we noticed that a few of you were having problems getting Opera to pickup your default Qt style. If you are one of those users try running Opera with the new '-systemstyle' argument,” Ruari Ødegaard, from the Opera Desktop Team, revealed.

But make no mistake about it. The enhancements introduced in Build 1857 of Opera 10.10 are in no way limited to Linux. In fact, as it is generally the case, the latest development milestone of Opera 10.10 Beta is available for Windows and Mac OS X in addition to the open source Linux operating system. “Of course it is not just Linux specific fixes. There are several Windows stability improvements, crash fixes, Unite fixes, tweaks to improve old features,” Ødegaard added.

At the end of October 2009, Opera Software indicated that it was shifting the resources for its browser-development efforts around in order to accommodate the next major iteration of Opera. No details are available to the public this early in the development process of the successor of Opera 10, but the company is by no means focusing exclusively on Opera 10.10 with Unite.

The latest release of Opera 10.10 with Unite is available for download here.