In an uncharacteristically open press release on Tuesday morning, Apple not only confirmed the appearance of CEO Steve Jobs for the WWDC 2011 keynote on Monday, June 6 but also outed iCloud and iOS 5 in addition to the release of Mac OS X Lion.

Apple shot out a doozy of a press release on Tuesday morning about the keynote at next week’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference. The event kicks off on Monday, June 6 at 10am PST with Apple CEO Steve Jobs “and a team of Apple executives” -- and they’ll likely need them all to do the heavy lifting for what’s sure to be a keynote for the ages.

“At the keynote, Apple will unveil its next generation software -- Lion, the eighth major release of Mac OS® X; iOS 5, the next version of Apple’s advanced mobile operating system which powers the iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch®; and iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering,” the shockingly open press release reads.

Of course, no one is really expecting iOS 5 to be launched at the event -- it’s likely just a preview of things to come. iCloud is referred to as “upcoming,” which also reads like it won’t be rolled out next week, but we can dare to dream.

Mac OS X Lion 10.7, on the other hand, appears to be closing in on a release. Apple has only officially said “summer,” but with a Mac OS X 10.6.8 software update making the rounds with developers which promises to prepare Snow Leopard users for a Lion upgrade, we’re likely looking at weeks instead of months.

Either way, this year’s WWDC is sure to be one not to be missed -- mark your calendar for Monday, June 6 and 10am PST and stay tuned to MacLife.com for all of the coverage!

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