After only two release candidates XBMC v11.0 Eden has been released. The latest version contains many updates and new features, including: Addon Rollbacks, Confluence improvements, Dirty region rendering, a new JPEG decoder, movie scraping, better network support, a new upgraded Weather service. This announcement also heralds the new XBMCbuntu Final.
On Ubuntu you can simply:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
The official announcement is now up over at xbmc.org. You can directly access the official announcement on their web page at:
http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/03/24/xbmc-11-0-eden/
Update [10:26pm]: I submitted a similar story to slashdot.org and it was published! This is the first time that I have ever submitted a story to slashdot. I’m very please to have my summary accepted (and happier to have not slashdotted myself!)