Skype heeft vandaag met versienummer 3.5.0.158 een nieuwe bètarelease van zijn VoIP-programma voor Windows uitgebracht. Met dit programma kunnen gratis gesprekken worden gevoerd met andere Skype-gebruikers, over het algemeen met een verbazend goede kwaliteit. Ook is het mogelijk om naar vaste en mobiele telefoons te bellen, tegen een kleine vergoeding. Naast de Windows-versie worden er ook versies voor Linux, Mac OS X en Pocket PC ontwikkeld, deze lopen technische gezien echter enigszins achter op de Windows-versie. De tweede bètarelease van versie 3.5 van Skype voor Windows wordt met het volgende changelog geleverd:
New features:Changes:
- Add video to mood and chat message
- Video snapshot
- What's New Guide
- Support for Firewire Digital cameras
Bugs fixed:
- Change SkypeMe status to Online for users under 16
- Updated all language files
- IE Plugin updated (2.2.0.98)
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- When menu was opened it needed 2 clicks to answer a call on tray notification
- Latvian installer did not work
- Installer did not remember custom install location
- Profile phone number text was cropped
- Autoredial attempts were wrongly counted
- Skype contacts were shown as SkypeOut contacts when sending SMS
- Accessibility: Not all buttons in profile were selectable via Tabstop
- Multiple device indicators were overlaying sometimes
- Status icon was shown wrongly on some machines
- Unable to copy emoticons while writing chat message
- Chat did not open from right place when person has extended keyboard navigation enabled
- Selecting text with double click did not work as expected when there were links in message
- Skype sometimes crashed on call transfer
- Duplicate entries in contact list
- Contact groups scrollbar visible when groups not expanded
- Voicemail event count does not decrease after listening to it
- Sound error not played on some actions
- German match case option in chat shown in black
- Cyrillic characters were shown wrongly on some places
- Chat messages were shown with too much indent
- Long usernames displayed wrongly in Events Panel
- Skype displayes blanks under Audio Settings
- Name not shown on tray alert on 1680x1050 resolution
- Call forwarded icon not displayed
- Changing participants view was not possible in chat window
- Add to SkypeOut did not work as expected on some rare cases
- Options accessibility has usability problems with screen readers
- Chat window content was too wide
- Chat controls did not appear instantly
- Video calls should be better on relayed connections
- Video calls with integrated Intel video cards had green flicker
- It was not possible to select default audio device
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