Yes, 1.0 full release is expected today. We are testing a release candidate, with results in another thread. We have discovered that there is a bug making it difficult to log in on the first try (usually about the 4th or 5th attempt is successful). The /area was working fine, /visit and /warpmeto worked, but the /spawn and /warp commands were not.
I have just now installed a new wrapper, SimpleServer for RC1.0 that will hopefully fix the login, /spawn and /warp issues. The version of bukkit that we were testing was for 1.9pre-release. It did not seem to work, so I guess we're still waiting on it.
The official minecon coverage starts today at 5:30pm ET on IGN. Hope to hear about the official release soon after.