Other new features include Opera Link, which syncs your Opera settings, notes, and bookmarks everywhere you go (even on your Opera Mini); Quick Find, which lets you quickly search for websites not only by their address but also by their content, and a sleek new default skin. The speed claims aren't related only to browsing; the folks at Opera claim that the latest version starts up much faster, and handles third party plug-ins faster, too. Support for web standards is, as always, improved.
Unfortunately, I was unable to download the new version, receiving a number of interesting FTP-related errors instead. You can find the official rundown here, and a cryptic message about the new major Opera version, Opera Peregrine (named after the Peregrine Falcon, which is apparently very fast) here.