While everyone else in the world has been partying all night the Opera desktop team developers have decided to add a little bit of work to that partying. They are the first to release a new web browser version in the new year. The new build of their upcoming Opera 10.50 web browser is still a pre-alpha build. The two most notable changes to the last public release of Opera 10.50 pre-alpha are the support of the HTML 5 video element and stability fixes.
The Unix version of Opera 10.50 has undergone some changes as well, most notable the removed dependency on the QT libraries which caused a problem for users who wanted to install the browser but did not have the libraries installed.
This and following versions of Opera do not require the libraries but will make use of them if they are installed on the computer system.
This means that you can run Opera without any graphical toolkit installed if you want to (plain X11), but if you do have toolkits installed, Opera will try to load and use them to integrate into the environment. Currently we are focusing on getting support for Gnome/GTK+ and KDE4/Qt4 into 10.5. The work on KDE4 integration is not at a stage yet where we think it can be used, so this pre-alpha release only has support for GTK
The desktop team recommends to install the Opera 10.50 pre-alpha release in a separate directory to avoid compatibility issues and to have a fallback version if Opera 10.50 does not run stable on the computer system.
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Seems a lot more stable to me :)