There are still bug fixes coming, which is good. But nevertheless we just released a release candidate tarball, available for download from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/darktable/files/darktable/1.0/darktable-1.0~rc1.tar.gz/download
which will hopefully help us to get rid of the last couple of remaining bugs before 1.0. For install instructions have a look on how to compile from source.
This is a rough outline of the changes since 0.9.3 (quite sure we forgot something, it’s been > 1000 commits):