After pushing the iTunes 9.0.3 update yesterday Apple today released the iPhone OS 3.1.3 for iPhone and iPod Touch users, the latest update to iPhone firmware offers basic bug-fixes and stability improvements as detailed after the jump.

With announcement of the January, 27 Apple event rumor-mill is once again hot with claims from trusted sources regarding various aspects of upcoming new product and software update release from the company, here is a short post summarizing all the trusted rumors.

Today's top rumor comes from BoyGenuisReport which has always been a primary source of exclusive insider Apple news and once again they have came up with some exclusive iPhone OS 4.0 details received via one of their trusted Apple contact.

Finally, links to download iPod Touch and iPhone OS 3.1 are live and users can download them right now either automatically via iTunes or direct links provided at end of the post, the update is free for all iPhone users and iPod Touch users having firmware version 3.0 - it seems iPod touch users having older firmware version needs to pay $4.95 for getting iPod Touch OS 3.1.

The software upgrade fixes quite some issues and bugs and introduces new features as follows.

As expected, iPhone OS 3.0 Beta is now out in the wild and available for download on bittorrent sites and will soon make its way to popular file-hosting and sharing sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload and Mediafire, the BETA preview is meant for developers and need an iPhone 3G registered as a developer handset to work, which means you need to pay $99 to Apple for an Developer account to test this out, if you upgrade without the developer registered iPhone you will get locked on the emergency screen, as already confirmed by the iPhone Dev Team this latest release is jailbrekable on all devices and a custom IPSW is expected to be released soon which might get installed on non-developer registered iPhones.