Mapnik is a work in progress. There are multiple updates almost every day. If you are a developer grab the latest source from subversion repository. For the rest there is a packaged tarball with the latest release. Hit the button above!
I'm going to be at FOSS4G 2010 next week in Barcelona. The last time I was in Spain was the final day of SOTM and the day Spain won the world cup. I'm excited to return!
We've nearly reached the halfway point in Google Summer of Code 2010 and the Mapnik project's inaugural year of participation. We are honored to have two great students working actively with the Mapnik codebase on unique projects, thanks to Google and the team at Google's Open Source Programs
It is an exciting time, as both are actively committing either to Mapnik trunk or testing branches of Mapnik's SVN