The VideoLAN project is glad to invite you to test the first release candidate of the Goldeneye version of VLC, numbered 1.0.0-rc1.
Source tarballs and Windows binaries are already available for download.

VideoLAN would like to take the opportunity to mention the Skins2 contest we are organizing during this release cycle time. To develop a skin, you can use our new VLC Skin Editor. Please share this contest news on your prefered social bookmarking or news site.

VLC 1.0.0-rc1, codename Goldeneye, is a test release of the 1.0.0 version of VLC. It introduces many new codecs, various playback core improvements (frame-by-frame, live-recording, instant pausing, etc...), interface improvements, new features and many bugfixes. We encourage people to test and report regressions that could have crept in this release.


Source:
http://www.videolan.org
http://wiki.videolan.org/Skins2_Contest