Opera 9.5, soon to be the newest version of Opera a.k.a KESTREL, will be coming soon. This is the update for the recent version Opera 9.2.

Opera 9.5 contains more than a year of improvements on the rendering engine. This includes improved CSS3 support (text-shadow anyone ), superior SVG support and a brand new javascript engine with support for ECMAScript 4 'getters' and 'setters'. Apart from being the best standard compliant browser, Opera 9.5 will also display even more webpages with bad coding.

Opera's team promises a much faster Opera, both in benchmarks and real web pages. The user interface will also feel snappier and more responsive, for example switching tabs is now a lot faster on UNIX.

Let's all wait for the Opera 9.5 which is for sure that there are lots of improvements over the past versions and some new features.

Within a few weeks Opera 9.5 weeklies will be publish so everyone can start playing with it.