Showing posts with label skype. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skype. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Skype 5.1.0.112

(2011.01.31)

Changes in 5.1.0.112

Video calling
- Video was not started when making numerous video calls during one Skype session

General
- Skype was crashing on startup for some users

Call transfer
- When transferring Skype call to a phone contact then phone contact was unable to hear audio

Options
- When giving and removing access to Skype for other programs then Skype crashed

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Skype 5.1.0.112 (Windows)

Thursday, January 6, 2011

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)

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Skype 5.0.0.156

(2010.12.14)

Changes in 5.0.0.156
Call Phones: Skype crashed on Call Phones area when user had more then one recently expired subscriptions

Contact requests: Contact requests sent from Skype for Windows in Cyrillic letters were shown as "?" marks on incoming contact request view on Skype for Android

Login: Skype crashed on login for users who had two or more dots ("..") in their username in row.

Screen sharing: Full screen sharing selection was not updated when selecting second monitor for screen sharing

Video: Fixed the issues with Freetalk Everyman webcam and FaceVsion Touchcam N1 not going into HD video calling mode. Note! Camera firmware needs to be upgraded as-well, see instructions for Freetalk and FaceVsion.

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Skype 5.0.0.156 (Windows)

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Skype 5.0.0.152

(2010.10.14)

Changes in 5.0.0.152

Changes:
* Removed post call experience
* Added an option to disable avatar pictures in contact list.

Fixed issues:
* Accessibility in Call Phones tab was not properly supported.
* Accessibility was not fully supported in Call View.
* It was not possible to accept or reject a contact request via keyboard.
* Labels in Add people widget were not visible to Jaws.
* When the user redialed within 10 seconds the audio was sometimes silent.
* During Skype update it was impossible to change language for Skype browser plugin.
* Skype browser plugin was wrongly interpreting US vanity numbers that exeed 11 digits.
* Sometimes the browser plugin dropdown menu was shown in the wrong place on the screen.
* Call Phones tab showed wrong information about subscriptions when user did not have reccurring payments enabled.
* Call to invalid number message was not cleared.
* Calling rates under subscriptions were sometimes not correctly shown.
* Header area in call phones tab sometimes showed some messages in text format instead of graphical.
* Numberpad on call phones was not displayed properly on low screen resolutions.
* Sometimes the rates lookup drop down list appeared in wrong place when using Skype in compact mode.
* Call Quality Indicator did not warn user if he mutes microphone in Windows settings.
* Call Quality Indicator stated unknown connection speed.
* Call restablishment message will remain on a call which appears to be fine, though available bandwidth is very low.
* The call quality indicator sometimes incorrectly reported medium quality when in fact the video call was in high definition.
* Call transfer to a phone number not in contact list did not work.
* Video was not transmitted after call transfer.
* Occasionally the call view had white boxes instead of texts.
* In rare occasions Skype crashed after changing microphone.
* Creating a Skype Out contact from recently dialled numbers was malfunctioning.
* There were some text formatting errors in Recents list.
* Avatar picture was not displayed in Public profile view.
* Sometimes, Add contacts buttons text was only partially visible.
* User search, based on e-mail and phone number, did not display partial results if full matches were present.
* On rare cases file receiver saw a erroneous message ‘The file isn’t available’.
* Skype sometimes stopped responding when accepting File Transfer in group conversation.
* Message box that appears so users can activate a free trial remained even after trial is activated.
* Often when adding a third participant to a video call the host was not notified about the need to activate a free trail in order to use group video calling.
* Placing a group video call with no free trial appears to other participants as missed conversation.
* Video could sometimes freeze for some participants on Group video calls.
* There was no support for languages read right to left in profile view.
* Skype opened in focus if Skype was set to autostart.
* Skype sometimes crashed when switching Windows user under Windows 7.
* Skype was starting as maximized during autostart process.
* When opening main menu Skype asked user to install Flash player if user did not have it previously installed.
* During screen sharing, the shared area may be partially cropped when resizing it.
* Netbooks with Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Graphics Chipset and Windows 7 sometimes had problems when receiving large screen sharing resolutions beyond 1322 × 823.
* Receiving a large resolution screen share could have artefacts on screen.
* When receiving screen sharing from Skype for Mac version 2.8, sometimes the screen does not load on the 5.0 side.
* The Skype Access connection display did not pop-up correctly when trying to connect to supported hotspot after starting Skype up.
* In some cases, avatar pictures were missing from Skype Home feed.
* Occasionally mood message update displays may be disrupted when the network connection is momentarily lost.
* Skype Home is not scaling very well to small and big window
* Sometimes there was a connection error when trying to open account panel from client alert in Skype Home.
* Un-sent mood message updates within Skype Home will not be saved when navigating away from Skype Home.
* Clicking on the webcamera settings may cause Skype to crash.
* In rare cases users video may not start correctly when using Logitech webcam pro 9000.
* In rare cases, video may not be received by the other party even if the local preview is working correctly
* Skype crashed if user quit Skype during an active call.
* Skype may not work properly with virtual cameras
* Switching between USB camera and HP Virtual webcam locks the camera
* The call receiver may not see HQ logo on their side during HQ call
* The receiver may not see HQ logo in the local preview while the receiver sees the logo on his side.
* The Skype video snapshots feature is not working on Windows XP SP3.
* This version of Skype (5.0) has increased CPU usage which may effect video quality on some computers.
* Under some circumstances upon ending a Skype Video call the webcam can still be capturing video even though it is no-longer in use.
* Video call picture quality was sometimes lower than expected in good conditions.
* Video calls may not work with virtual machines.
* Video calls on a secondary display causes higher CPU load compared to usage on the primary display.
* Video may stop if you lock and unlock your computer while on a call
* Video might freeze in calls with H.264 devices.
* DailyMotion videos which have been added to a mood message are not being displayed to other contacts.
* Calls go to Voicemail for offline users even if they have disabled it from Options.
* Message that display’s “Item has been deleted from conversation history.” sometimes appeared after sending Voicemail. Voicemail itself will be sent without problems.

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Skype 5.0.0.152 (Windows)

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Skype 4.2.0.187

(2010.09.07)

Changes in 4.2.0.187

Fixed issues:
- Some local status icons were displayed wrongly in Windows 7
- Message regarding new connected USB device was also shown on subsequent device connections
- There were compatibility issues with Dell’s Face recognition software
- Skype sometimes crashed during video calls when avirtual webcam was being used and CPU was under severe load
- Video calls on low-end machines sometimes showed rendering artifacts.

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Skype 4.2.0.187 (Windows)

Friday, May 21, 2010

Skype 4.2.0.169

(2010.05.20)

Change in 4.2.0.169

Fix issues:
Video - Skype crashed with some web-cameras when video calling, for example with Microsoft Lifecam Show and HP Elite Autofocus web-cam.

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Skype 4.2.0.169 (Windows)

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Skype 4.1.0.179

(2009.10.12)

Changes in 4.1.0.179
* Video - Video was freezing approximately 30 seconds after changing the screen resolution. Note: if the sender is using an older version of Skype, the video they receive can still appear to freeze – something that can only be addressed by updating their version.
* Extras Manager - Updated to version 2.0.0.67
Fixed a security vulnerability in the Extras Manager. Recommendation to users: use virus protection services in case of any problems.

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Skype 4.1.0.179 (Windows)

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Skype 4.0.0.227

(2009.06.03)

Changes in 4.0.0.227
* bugfix: Configuration settings for some users were being lost when upgrading from 3.x to 4.0
* bugfix: Fixes for miscellaneous crashes
* bugfix: Fixes for Video rendering issues
* bugfix: Fixed "Disk I/O error" on sign-in
* bugfix: Skype occassionally crashed when shutting down

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Skype 4.0.0.227 (Windows) / Skype 2.7.0.330 (Mac OS X 10.3 or higher) / Skype 2.0.0.72 (Linux)

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Skype 4.0.0.226

(2009.04.22)

Changes in 4.0.0.226
* bugfix: Extras Manager was not installed to some users
* bugfix: Skype incorrectly advised users of new Audio Devices available
* bugfix: When adding a new number the phone type was incorrectly labeled
* bugfix: Re-adding contacts to a existing conversation did not display the contact in the Add contacts drop down menu
* bugfix: Video did not always scale correctly
* bugfix: Skype occasionally crashed when uPnP port forwarding failed
* bugfix: Improved uPnP handling for Linksys WRTG54G owners
* bugfix: When dialing certain numbers some digits were erased from the beginning and the number became invalid
* bugfix: Audio device was reset for some users on each Skype start
* All localizations updated

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Skype 4.0.0.226

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Skype 4.0.0.216

(2009.03.18)

Change in 4.0.0.216
* bugfix: Skype Extras Manager was not installed

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Skype 4.0.0.216

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Skype 4.0.0.215

(2009.03.11)

Changes in 4.0.0.215
* change: Full text quote will be shown only after sending instant messages
* bugfix: Informative messages appeared multiple times even when closed
* bugfix: Disk I/O error message appeared intermittently
* bugfix: Skype sometimes failed to install when Firefox was set as the default browser in the United States
* bugfix: Compact view window positioning fixed
* bugfix: Some USB dual-phones did not detect Skype correctly
* bugfix: Some full-screen applications minimized automatically when Skype was running with the Skype visual style enabled
* bugfix: If a user has Compact View enabled, opening a conversation from the tray alert does always open
* bugfix: 'Ignore' option in the 'Call' menu was greyed out when receiving an incoming call
* bugfix: Help menu was sometimes displayed incorrectly in Compact View
* bugfix: Tools menu was not fully visible in compact view on some window sizes
* bugfix: Echo123 was incorrectly re-added to contacts when opening Getting Started Wizard
* bugfix: SMS failure reason messages were missing
* bugfix: Instant messaging entry area showed vertical scroll bar after changing font size
* bugfix: Add people to group conference call was not disabled when host was using Skype 3.8 for Windows
* bugfix: Opening a file without file association triggered error message instead of a menu to choose application with which to open it
* bugfix: Adding contact to a category via right click menu caused contact list display disruption
* bugfix: Incorrect error message appeared when no entries were found within history search
* bugfix: Contact list was not always sorted correctly
* bugfix: Personalize button appeared blank - intermittent
* bugfix: Unable to take a video snapshot when selecting the option from the drop down menu
* bugfix: Call dropped when adding a participant to a conference call
* bugfix: Setting number type was not possible when editing contact phone number
* bugfix: More button on users video mood message did not work
* bugfix: Call Quality feedback link "Issues with this call" was not visible - intermittent
* bugfix: // link did not work with Firefox
* bugfix: Skype did not start after installing on Vista when computer was running on batteries
* bugfix: A new message notification was not generated when sending an instant message using the /me command
* bugfix: Call were not started automatically to a contact who was added to an ongoing call
* bugfix: Menus flickered when using Skype with Arabic or Hebrew language
* bugfix: Double click on a contact did not focus the instant message entry box
* bugfix: Dates were not shown in old conversations
* bugfix: Disabling contact import feature via registry did not work
* bugfix: Phone number type was not being saved
* bugfix: End call sound was played when user joined group call
* bugfix: Links to domains .rs, .me, .kp, .xn did not work
* bugfix: Incoming contact request were not shown correctly in compact view
* bugfix: Closing conversation from menu did not work
* bugfix: Clicking on Skype links on web pages did not bring the Skype window to foreground
* bugfix: Adding phone contacts to group conversations was not possible
* bugfix: Accessibility: Tab order corrected in options
* All localizations updated

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Skype 4.0.0.215
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