New preview release 0.10
August 7th, 2009
A new preview release for Fedora 11 is avaiable here:
http://timlau.fedorapeople.org/files/yumex/
The biggest change is that now is the gui parts running as normal user and only the backend doing the yum actions are running as root. So you will see the root password prompt, shortly after the gui is started.