The Opera Desktop Team released two new snapshots today both with and without their Opera Unite service. While the development team is making good progress it seems that it won't be part of the upcoming 10.0 release after all.

Opera Unite was introduced sometime later than the first beta of Opera 10 and it seems that the development unfortunately won't be able to finish it in time to be included in the Opera 10.0 release. Instead, as the Opera Desktop Team blog suggests, it will be part of Opera 10.10, which will be released as soon as possible.

Of course as soon as possible means once it has met the standards of Opera's QA department. Of course this will be a slight disappointment, but Opera 10.0 still comes with a lot of improvements on it's own.

To try the latest snapshots (with or without Unite), as well as the full changelog, go to the Opera Desktop Team blog. Be sure to report any (critical) issues as with the splitting in 10.0 and 10.10 the final release should be relatively near.