Planning on that new version began in earnest , and a few months later I outlined that were then expected to be included.

Today, however, is the official on the release, meaning that by now--three alpha versions in--we should be able to get a decent sense of what Oneiric Ocelot will look like when it's ultimately released on October 13.

Ready for an update? Here's how things have most recently shaped up.

1. Linux Kernel 3.0

Perhaps most central to Oneiric Ocelot is its inclusion in Alpha 3 of the 3.0.0-7.9 Ubuntu kernel, which is based on of the mainline Linux kernel. This is an update even just from the Alpha 2 release, which used a version based on the mainline v3.0-rc5 kernel.