Skype heeft vandaag met versienummer 4.0.0.176 de derde officiele bètarelease van Skype for Windows 4.0 uitgebracht. Volgens de ontwikkelaars is er hard over nagedacht om het gebruik van Skype nog eenvoudiger te maken. Zo is versie 4.0 voorzien van een nieuw uiterlijk, is het scherm een stuk groter geworden, moet het vinden van nieuwe contacten en het versturen van bestanden makkelijk zijn. Ook is er een 'compact view' bijgekomen, waardoor Skype er ook weer als voorheen uit kan zien. Op deze pagina is meer informatie en een video te vinden waar de nieuwe mogelijkheden worden uitgelegd. Hieronder is te vinden wat er in deze release allemaal veranderd is:
New features:Improvements:
- Abuse reporting - allow users to report unwanted contact requests and Spam
- Call Quality Feedback button
- Skype Prime payments support
- Outlook Contacts
- Custom Chrome
- History
- My Account in Client 2
Changed:
- Options panel updated
- improved layout of profile area in group conversations
- Instant Messaging display
- Call Toolbar
- More visible button to switch between default and classic view
- Improved bandwidth allocation methods
- Changes to file sending design
Bugs fixed:
- Getting Started Wizard improvements
- Extras Manager updated to version 2.0.0.65
- Removed AMR-WB audio codec
Features not supported in 4.0 Beta 3 for Windows:
- Skype occasionally crashed on login on Windows XP SP1
- When entering the symbol & into your mood message then it changed to &amp
- Call cost for calls to phones was not displayed
- When resuming download wrong estimate was shown
- The confirmation page for Adding a phone number contact showed html code
- Light Installer did not show plugin installing options on re-install
- Right hand blue canvas placement fixes
- Instant message sound notifications did not always play
- The duration of your voicemail recording was displayed incorrectly
- Jpeg error was shown when viewing profile
- First character in Cyrillic was displayed incorrectly in quickfilter
- Instant message windows in compact view were not always in focus
- High Quality Video call logo overlapped some call controls
- Webcam not available message not displayed
- Links to webpages which contained @ were not clickable
- Incoming message notifications did not always clear
- In compact view, instant message windows sometimes popped up when they shouldn't
- In compact view, new incoming instant messages did not pop up
- Local network contacts online status showed incorrectly on occasion
- Japanese language input was problematic
- Web links caused "unable to launch web browser" error for people who have AOL broswer installed
- Group conversations did not act consistently with contact categories
- Occasionally Skype crashed on login
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- Skype Prime provider setup
- Accessibility (keyboard navigation and screen reader functionality)
- Call transfer
- Creating new Shared Groups
- Sending contacts
- Send Money
- Partner alerts (eg eBay, Paypal, Free411)
- Public chats (IM)
- Auto redial
- IRC chat style
- Speed dial
- MySpaceIM with Skype