Skype 5.1.0.104

(2011.01.06)

New features:
- Group video calling out of Beta

Improvements:
Calling
- Improved surfacing of ‘Add Contact’ and ‘Create a Group’ functions

Video Calling
- Video calls now always start in 640×480 resolution
- Video calls on powerful computers start in 30 frames per second mode

Fixed issues:
Accessibility
- Skype failed to detect screen reader software
- Accessibility fix for selecting chat messages

Call Phones
- Improved scaling for low resolution displays

Call Quality Feedback
- Call quality feedback form was nor properly displayed in Arabic and Hebrew

Call Quality Indicator
- Unplugging a audio device in use during a call was not handled properly, Skype could have crashed or then did not switch to remaining audio device
- Call Quality Indicator was sometimes displayed partly out of the screen
- On clicking Call Quality tray alert message then the call quality indicator was not focused on compact mode
- Rarely Call Quality indicator reported a good internet connection to user when he actually did not had a working connection

Call transfer
- Skype crashed when transferring already transferred call

Call view
- Ampersands were not displayed properly in callview
- Incoming call notification after recently ended previous call had wrong messaging
- Call Toolbar did not re-appear when critical issue was discovered during a call
- On call recovery sometimes call view settings were changed

Calling
- Enabling Skype’s Microphone controlling feature did not take effect during active call when microphone was muted
- Audio playback from devices which used 16k or 32k sampling rate was choppy
- Skype audio was played back only from right ear-piece with Logitech headsets G35 and G930

Generic
- Skype window on dual monitor configuration was not remembered when using compact mode

Group Video Calling
- Skype crashed when quiting it in middle of Group Video call
- After holding and resuming a Group Video call sometimes not all video streams were resumed

Options
- Open chats were not cleared after deleting chat history from Options
- User selected ringing device was sometimes changed to speaker device
- Clipped receive files folder name in IM settings
- SMS options text did not fit to screen on some languages
- Skype crashed on audio devices changing in options when user selected some specific device affected with the issue

Profile
- Improved scrolling profile area while in edit mode

Welcome screen
- Welcome screen test call button was not accessible for screen readers
- Take a video snapshot button did not work on Welcome Screen
- Seldom Welcome screen was not top-most Skype window when launching Skype

Video calling
- Few users saw their own video on both video preview and on incoming video area
- Fixed delayed video startup when user used Standard VGA adapter as display device
- Improved video smoothness on low quality network connection

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Skype 5.1.0.104 (Windows)