Skype heeft met versienummer 4.0.0.181 een nieuwe 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 featurea:Improvements:
- Silk audio codec
- MySpaceIM with Skype (functionality carried over from 3.8)
- Option to disable uPnP and Nat-PMP
- eBay browser highlighter bundled
- Added Philips SPC 1330 NC as High Quality Video camera
Bugs fixed:
- Instant Messaging layout improved
- All language localizations updated
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- History did not show all entries
- Outlook contacts were not always displayed correctly
- Resize area was missing from Shop panel
- Chrome could not be switched off in some scenarios
- Skype Call and SMS URI did not focus Skype
- Changing language settings on sign-in screen did not always update language
- Links in form of username:password@something were not clickable
- Crash in Vista, when last audio device was removed during a call
- Quickfilter took focus while writing an instant message
- Incorrect tooltip displayed when a call was put on hold
- After switching Custom Chrome off through menus no visual style was selected in options
- 'Add to contacts' right-click menu missing for Outlook contacts
- Close menu did not work in Compact mode conversation window
- Recently closed conversations menu did not truncate long conversation names
- Wrong file transfer status was shown after other side cancelled sending file
- US Number +15416 was shown as Canadian
- Emoticons were not shown in profile area
- Emoticons were not shown when exchanging contact details
- Conference call sometimes continued ringing after answering
- Checkbox to show online users count was missing from Tools > Options
- Conversations were not consumed when user was blocked
- Video error message was not displayed when webcam was in use by another application