Skype for Windows 2.5.0.72 beta

Posted on Thursday, May 04 2006 @ 13:08 CEST by LSDsmurf

New features:
  • Ability to Send SMS
  • Predictive Dialer
  • Shared Groups
  • View Outlook Contacts
  • Payments in Client
  • Improved Account Creation
  • Improved Upgrade
  • Call quality Feedback
  • Simplified Installation
  • Voice level indicators in conference call
  • File Transfer resumes after restart of Skype
  • API group types PROPOSED_SHARED_GROUP and SHARED_GROUP (protocol 6 only), commands ALTER GROUP xx SHARE and ALTER GROUP xx ACCEPT/DENY
  • API commands GET CALL xx RATE and GET CALL xx RATE_CURRENCY
  • API commands SET UI_LANGUAGE and GET UI_LANGUAGE
  • API command SEARCH MISSEDVOICEMAILS
  • API commands ALTER CHAT xx BOOKMARK and ALTER CHAT xx UNBOOKMARK, CHAT property BOOKMARKED
  • API command ALTER VOICEMAIL xx SETUNPLAYED
Changed:
  • Improved video quality
  • Removed windows platform check for video
  • Disable the Test Webcam button when Skype knows there is no webcam present
  • Improve error message when sending files to Pocket PC users
  • Replaced some ringtones
  • Accessibility: contact mood text accessible via MSAA
  • Accessibility: Implement MSAA support for search results
  • Language file editor has simple search and ordering possibilities
  • Profile window changed to non-modal
  • Clarified 'contact details' in authorization requests
  • Sound file too big error shown already on import
  • Improved dialog wordings
  • Current chat window position at beginning of unread messages when opening the window
  • Only focused emoticon is animated in the emoticons roster
  • API protocol 6
  • API: conference calls that had been made or received with version 2.0 or older are not considered as conf calls any more
  • API: After conference call is finished, CONF_PARTICIPANTS_COUNT shows number of all participants no matter when they had left
Bugs fixed:
  • SkypeOut call quality deteriorated in long calls over bad network
  • Fixed some corner cases where presence was shown incorrectly
  • Mood message was truncated incorrectly
  • Chinese symbols input to chat window problem with Wubi Input Methods
  • No confirmation on deleting Voicemail
  • Remove my mood message from 'my panel' title when opened
  • Video not updated when on hold
  • Pressing "cancel" did not restore previous settings for Voicemail in options
  • Calling invalid number with callto: did not show error dialog
  • Default action button in multichat for people you have not authorized should be 'add', not 'call'
  • Ampersand does not show correctly on tab header
  • Double click did not work on quickfiltered chats
  • After applying Quick Filter the previous group was changed
  • Could not select URL in chat
  • After adding new SkypeOut number Skype should focus on it
  • When only one contact in the contact list, it should always be expanded
  • Sort order in Contact List does not follow local collation order
  • User Interface language change not applied to error message
  • TypeDown search does not start at focused contact
  • Long filenames were not truncated in File Transfer window
  • API: If APPLICATION for app2app communication was created and closed without deleting it, next time it was impossible to create it again.
  • API: BTN_RELEASED deleted first character entered on Addressbar
  • API: OPEN SENDCONTACTS to multiple targets did not add recipients to form
  • API: Setting TIMEZONE bigger than 86400 was broken
  • API: ALTER VOICEMAIL actions were not returned uppercase
  • API: Sometimes on deleting voicemail notification VOICEMAIL xx STATUS DELETING was missing
  • API: SEARCH MESSAGES returned other users' messages also
New language files:
  • Bulgarian (Nikolay Filipov & Nikolina Filipova
  • Czech (Petr Silon)
  • German
  • Estonian (Eve Loopere)
  • Hungarian (Mark Bender & Laszlo Koncz & Gabor Stefanik)
  • Italian (Daniele Conte)
  • Norwegian (Stig Auestad)
  • Dutch (Kees Koenders)
  • Polish (Karol Szastok)
  • Portuguese (Francisco Ferreira)
  • French (Fabrice Imperial & Bruno Lépaulard)
  • Spanish (David Reche)
  • Finnish (Heino Keränen)
  • Swedish (Anders Olsson)
  • Turkish (Emin Dede)
  • Romanian (Peter Henning)
  • Arabic (Sophia Hammoudeh from Maktoob / Eriksen)
  • Chinese Simplified (Leon Yang from tom.com)
  • Chinese Traditional (Carlos Lee, Morden Chen from Pchome)
  • Japanese (Mayu Shimizu)
  • Brasilian Portuguese (Anna Nystrom)
Known issues:
  • upgrading to 2.5 and downgrading from 2.5 might take time depending on call history length
  • conference call participant names lost in call history after upgrade
  • DTMF tones from dialpad do not work

Program Information
Category:
Internet and communication
Type:
Free

Version:
2.5.0.72 beta
Size:
10.3MB
Works on:
Windows


Product page: here

Download: Skype for Windows 2.5.0.72 beta


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