iOS 5 will be released on October 12, Apple announced today at the iPhone event. It’s been expected any time this fall, but now we have a solid date, and it’s coming up.

iOS 5 was announced months ago, and will come with lots of new features. Read all about it here.

Of course a major feature of that is iCloud, which the company touted once again today. It will also be shipped October 12.

There’s not a lot new in this part of the discussion as far as I can tell, other than the release date.

iTunes Match (which was announced with iCloud), will be out at the end of the month, by the way.

It will be on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad, iPod touch 3rd and 4th generations.

But what about the iPhone 5? Oh the suspense.

Stay tuned for more.