Canonical has already announced the release — on Thursday, that is — of Feisty, and does a good job condensing some of the features.
Windows migration tool: The new migration tool recognizes Internet Explorer bookmarks, Firefox favorites, desktop wallpaper, AOL IM and Yahoo IM contacts, and imports them all into Ubuntu during installation. This offers easier and faster migration for new users of Ubuntu and individuals wanting to run a dual-boot system.
Simpler multimedia: A new guided wizard for automatically installing multimedia codecs not shipped with Ubuntu gives users a safe and easy way to view music and videos.
Plug and play network sharing with Avahi: This new feature allows users to automatically discover and join a wireless network to share music, find printers and more.
Best of the open source world: Ubuntu 7.04 supports the Linux 2.6.20 kernel, the recent GNOME 2.18 desktop environment, and thousands of additional applications.
Ubuntu’s already outstanding support for thin clients is further enhanced with advanced sound support from PulseAudio sound server and Jetpipe, a printing architecture for thin clients.
For me, and perhaps for others who have been around Ubuntu for a bit, this is quite exciting. In a lot of ways, Feisty is exactly what we all wanted Breezy to be. Or Hoary. Or Warty. Or … 😉
or… Dapper. Good.
just a pity that many media sources are passing on that information in a way that tries to show that its already been released, just have a glance at the registers article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/16/ubuntu_feisty_release/