Ubuntu 11.10 will have a fully revamped version of Gwibber – Gwibber 3.1. While the earlier version of Gwibber was made using Python and Webkit, Gwibber 3.1 is made using Vala and GTK3.

After the delay. Canonical has released the second alpha of Ubuntu 11.10. Meant for development purposes, this release has a number of new features that will finally make it to the final release in October.

According to the original release schedule, Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2 was supposed to be released on 30th June. The release date was missed and now, it has been revealed that the second alpha of Ubuntu 11.10 will be released on 7th July.

Thunderbird has replaced Evolution as the default email client in the daily build of Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical has decided that it is time for the Software Center to replace Synaptic. So, in the next daily build of Ubuntu 11.10, Synaptic will no longer be installed by default.

Colin Watson of Canonical has announced yesterday that all the amd64 and i386 ISO for Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” will be distributed in the hybrid format starting today.

The first alpha of Ubuntu 11.10, codenamed “Oneiric Ocelot”, has been released today. The biggest change in Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 1 from Ubuntu 11.04 is GNOME 3.0.

Today, Jason Warner from Canonical has made the feature list for Ubuntu 11.10 official. Let us take a look at the new features that are making it into Ubutnu 11.10 one by one.

According to the release schedule, we will see the first alpha of Ubuntu 11.10 as early as 2nd June and the final release is scheduled on 13th October.