It’s always nice to wake up to some goodies to play with. This morning (depending on where you are obviously) we released beta versions of the next versions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth on Adobe Labs. These betas should give you some idea of the direction that CS4 is taking.

Notable new features:
New user interface
You’ll see this one across other components of the next version of Creative Suite and I like it very much!

Photoshop Smart Objects
You could already drag and drop PSD files into a Dreamweaver page in CS3 but now these are actual Smart Objects.

Subversion integration
I’m sure some of you will say: “Finally”.

WebKit preview
Dreamweaver now uses WebKit to preview pages in design view. Hoorah! 

More new features on http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/dreamweavercs4/.

Notable new features:
AIR authoring
Make an interactive prototype of your AIR application directly within Fireworks and deploy it as HTML with CSS, Flex or Flash.

Adobe type engine
Fireworks now has the Adobe type engine to produce superior type design in a way that is familiar to Photoshop and Illustrator users.

More new features on http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/fireworkscs4/.
UPDATE: Alan Musselman has an in-depth presentation online where he walks through all the new features Fireworks has to offer.

Notable new features:
Multitrack
This must have been the most requested feature! And yes… Soundbooth is now multitrack!

Matching volume levels
With just one click, Soundbooth analyzes and adjusts the audio levels

More new features on http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/soundboothcs4/.

Go get them at labs.adobe.com! All betas are available for Windows and OSX and will work alongside your CS3 installations. These betas provide you an opportunity to give feedback on the next versions of these applications. If you find a bug or have feedback, make sure you file it on the beta forums.