UPDATE: Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat Beta has been released.
Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has been scheduled to be released 10 October 2010 (10/10/10) and most of the changes have been already implemented as it is heading for the 3rd Alpha release in August 5th. GNOME Shell and GNOME 3 will not make it to Ubuntu 10.10 as it was initially expected. Also, the default theme seems to be same as Lucid. However, there are going to be some changes in this version. Some of them are:
Ubuntu 10.10 Marvick Meerkat has been announced at Shuttleworth’s Blog today, April 2, 2010 which should be released in October 2010.
Ubuntu 10.04 daily build is now available for download at the Ubuntu Website. Here you go:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
UPDATE: Beta 1 is available here
However, if you are using Karmic already, don’t expect anything changed soon. It is almost like Karmic at the time of this posting. Changes will start to appear later.
UPDATE Feb, 2010: Alpha 3 brings theme changes.
UPDATE: Beta 1 brings other signification changes.
Having said that, they have plans to bring about following changes with Lucid Lynx: Continue Reading