Mapnik 3.0 is the current stable release.

You can download the source code archive for Mapnik 3.0.10 from http://mapnik.org/pages/downloads.

Detailed build instructions are included in the source tree:

• Master INSTALL.md

See UsingScons for an introduction to SCons (Mapnik's python build system)

• Linux -- Notes on a variety of Linux Distributions
• FreeBSD
• Windows
• Mac OS X
• Solaris

• InstallationTroubleshooting (Find/Report hints here)