Opera 9.5 beta to be released at Rock Opera party next week
Published October 17th, 2007 1:39 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanNext week, on Thursday, Opera will be releasing the very first Opera 9.5 beta. The release will coincide with the Rock Opera party in San Francisco that will feature live performances of the bands The 88 and The Binges.
The Rock Opera party is more than just the new Opera 9.5 beta. 
Get ready to rock with Opera!
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Why is this hurry? … Still lot to fix.
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I agree with cousin333. Please, please, Opera devs, don’t make the same mistake the Apple developers did with Safari’s first so-called “beta”. Nobody will argue about a later release, but if the beta has serious flaws, it can only hurt your reputition.
I hope you know what you’re doing…
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I think, the last builds have a lot of new features, but a lot-lot of new bugs, too. I’m afraid of releasing of this beta. I agree, that it’s the smaller wrong to protract, than run into any “media-KO”.
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Well that is the purpose of “beta” software. send it out into the wild so that users can find the bugs that Opera devs would miss. Safari’s bugs probably would not have been found if there wasn’t a public beta.
I guess we have been so conditioned by beta software and services that they have now become almost a final product (looking at you gmail…).
if this was a final product release I too would be fearfull of the bad press that would come from buggy software, but beta is beta, ie. unfinished software still being developed.
So bring it on!
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Opera 9.5 needs two bugs to be fixed.
- Sometimes the searching history tabs feature locks up and shutdown Opera.
- On at least my installation the speed dial feature is messed up. Opera only keeps a cache of 5 of the 9 images for speed dial, so for the 4 with no saved image Opera reverts to using another image (meaning five websites have the same image inside of speed dial when they are in-fact four different websites).
I won’t make the jump unless those are fixed. Well, I guess Opera could use a better OS X GUI (Opera developers, please try and make a theme to integrate Opera into Leopard’s GUI).
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Sounds like next week’s going to be good for browser releases with actual, substantive changes! We get an Opera beta on Thursday, and on Friday, Apple releases the new Mac OS X version with Safari 3. (And with any luck, the Windows & Tiger versions will be available for download as well.)
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Kelson, this has been a great month overall!
October 18th - Ubuntu 7.10 Released
October 25th - Opera 9.5 Beta (dropping the Alpha!)
October 26th - Mac OS X Leopard Released and possibly a reworking of the Apple line-up.
A few other good/comical things have happened as well, such as the comedian Steven Colbert deciding to run for US President as both a Democrat and a Republican (if he’s elected other countries will probably laugh at the US, even I will and I live in the US).
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yes, me too i think kestrel still needs some time for refinery before it goes to beta phase
K3M15@, opera already released alphas for testing, so it is their for whom knows it is still under heavy development but still want to try it
though, i prefer if the final is released today, i will miss opera, but that will not be very hard, since i will miss the internet
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Cool beans!
I hope it is much more stable than the current build, though. I’m looking forward to all the new features, but will be customizing many of the keyboard shortcuts back to the older versions.
I wonder why Ctrl+Q was disabled on Windows…
At any rate, I’m glad there will be a release
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current state of 9.5 builds is no more than early alpha. relasing it, even with half bugs fixed leaves still tOO MANY known and serious issues. if stuff like ‘framestest dont work’ gets to public beta Opera is going to be LOL’ed all over the net. safari casus was enough
releasing stuff just to meet a deadline = lousy quality product, bad PR, unhappy customers
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@DMXell: please retest this in the latest weekly. Both issue should be fixed now
@whatever2: framesets are fixed in the next build
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Why do certain uninformed people assume that the beta will still have issues like the frames thing? It’s a beta. All it needs is that all the most serious stuff is fixed. The list of known issues on the desktop team blog is quite small, and looks like everything can be fixed.
Certain people seem to insist on whining in advance, just in case they don’t get the chance later
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“The list of known issues on the desktop team blog is quite small, and looks like everything can be fixed.”
i just happen to remember 9.0 release so i reserve myself the right to doubt it. i also know a bit about software development, and happen to know, that if this (9600) build is an equivalent to internal builds from 2weeks ago, then 9.5 will flop loudly. there is no time to fix bugs like that. just because somethin horribly wrong and unpredicted must have happened if stuff like ‘no frames’ or ‘overwritting files without asking’ or ‘yaho mail crashes’ even happened.
opera seems to have forgotten Safari 3.0.0 lesson.
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For those who like testing Opera just put up an new snapshot.
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/10/18/a-snapshot-a-day-keeps-the-bugs-away
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Opera is going to rock everything from sky- to ground level
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The new 9603 build is a good step to fix the major problems. But they are many, yet. I hope for the beta.
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whatever2, it’s a beta launch, not a final.
Besides, the first 9.5 alpha was very well received, almost like a final.
You obviously don’t know much about software development anyway, considering your posting history.
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LOL @ whatever2
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Muph: “whatever2, it’s a beta launch, not a final….You obviously don’t know much about software development anyway, considering your posting history.”
Your right, beta hasn’t to be perfect, can consist bugs. But alpha can have major bugs, but beta directly not! Nowadays a media-hype about a beta version is too important to **** the renounce up.
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(Very intelligent blog-motor!)
I correct myself: “…a beta too important to lose the renounce.”
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I have just downgraded from kestrel to 9.24
I hope the beta of Kestrel will be enough estable for daily use