After the release of Opera 11.10, codenamed Barracuda, the next release has been officially unveiled to be named Swordfish. Swordfish will eventually become the stable Opera 11.50 release and already includes some nice goodies.

Currently Swordfish focuses on three key features: Opera Next, password synchronization, and Speed Dial extensions. The first one is the most interesting, being a new development channel where you can get new Opera snapshots much easier. It's distinctive by a white icon and its menu button and can be installed alongside the normal stable Opera release. This is of course similar to Chrome's Dev Channel and the Firefox Aurora channel.

Another new feature is password synchronization, which improves the existing Opera Link functionality, while last but not least Speed Dial now supports extensions to adapt the site's specific Speed Dial in Opera.

You can test drive this new release by reading and downloading the installer from the Opera Desktop Team's blog.