That is what I thought the most recent version might help with @mhahn. But the issue I'm having seems to be different.
Fishing about for some examples to try and figure out where I'm going wrong I can run Intro to Intel XDK IoT Edition using a Temperature Display : Write the Code! just fine which uses mraa. But using demo scripts from johnny-five (such as https://github.com/rwaldron/johnny-five/blob/af10c0dfb2e700fa499a44da2c4ca4366b275bee/eg/lcd-i2c.js) which is using the intel-iot driver JHD1313M1 (i think that's what it's called anyway) to try and run the LCD give me an error message:
Intel XDK - Message Received: run
1421323086132Device(s)Galileo-IO (Intel Edison)
1421323086165ConnectedGalileo-IO (Intel Edison)
1421323086167ReplInitialized
>> ERROR: node: /usr/include/node/node_buffer.h:76: static char* node::Buffer::Data(v8::Handle<v8::Value>): Assertion `val->IsObject()' failed.