June 2007

Today we have released Skype 1.4 for Linux beta version, codename The Great Cucumber.

The new beta version has better user experience and many new features in comparison with the previous alpha.

We would like to thank everyone for the feedback it has been real pleasure to get your input.

You are welcomed to continue leaving us issue reports in Jira and discuss about thins in forums or learn more about Skype for Linux in our development page.

This newborn has major update to audio you will find in it:

• Skype’s own audio codec
• Skype improved conference mixer
• Skype Jitter Buffer and concealment
• Skype audio preprocessing components

We recommend for everyone to upgrade.

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We have just released hotfix for Skype 2.6 for Mac.

This version has updated audio engine and we are highly recommending for everyone to upgrade.

Audio changes include:

• Skype’s own audio codec
• Skype improved conference mixer
• Skype Jitter Buffer and concealment
• Skype audio preprocessing components

Other changes in newly released version 2.6.0.148 are:

• localizations: all updated
• bugfix: fixed application hangup on handling certain URL links in chat messages
• bugfix: fixed exception (resulting in disappearance of message) on handling certain intentionally constructed “bad” chat messages
• bugfix: privacy policy fix, not accepting multichats from non-authorized users

Giving feedback and requesting new features makes it possible for us to make Skype for Mac even better for you in the future.

You can discuss about Skype on forums, report issues and request new features on our public issue tracker Jira, read how to use Jira on our Skype for Mac development page.

On 11th June we released gold version of Skype 2.2 for Windows Mobile.

The new version has many new features and improvements.

I would like to make a big in front of everyone who has given feedback on the beta version. It has been great pleasure to work with you all who helped to make Skype 2.2 for Windows Mobile even better.

You can download it here and leave us feedback on Skype forums.

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Today we have released Skype 3.5 Beta for Windows. It includes many new features in comparison with Skype 3.2 for Windows.

This is a beta release which means that we are still working on it and that it is only recommended for experienced users to try out new bleeding edge features. Read more about meaning of beta release.

You can download the new beta version of Skype here.

As always we are more than happy when you will give us feedback about our product. You can do it on our forum for Skype 3.5 Beta for Windows or in our public issue tracker Jira, to learn more how to leave us feedback please visit our Skype for Windows development page.

The newly released version of Skype, 3.5.0.107, hosts following new features and changes in comparison with latest 3.2 release, in addition to those it has numerous bug fixes:

• feature: Auto redial
• feature: Call Transfer
• feature: Device Indicators
• feature: Edit chat messages
• feature: Message history loading granulated
• feature: Private Telephone Numbers
• feature: Send contacts inside chat
• feature: Visual indicators for Audio In / Audio Out in options
• feature: Show examples of notifications / alerts in options
• feature: Added Latvian localization - Intars Students
• feature: In-Client Hardware store button
• change: Extras Manager updated to version 1.2.0.261
• change: Options categories smoothly slide open and close when changed
• Updated language files: Arabic (Eriksen Translations Inc.), Bulgarian (Nikolina Filipova & Nikolay Filipov), Czech (Petr Silon), Danish (Eriksen Translations Inc), German (Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli), Estonian (Eve Loopere), Greek (Panagiotis Sidiropoulos http://www.magenta.gr ),French (Fabrice IMPERIAL & Bruno Lépaulard), Italian (Daniele Conte), Japanese (Mayu Shimizu), Hungarian (Mark Bender & Laszlo Koncz & Gabor Stefanik),Latvian (Intars Students), Lithuanian (Viktoras Kriukovas), Norwegian (Stig Auestad), Dutch (Kees Koenders), Polish (Karol Szastok), Portuguese-Portugal (Francisco Ferreira, Portuguese-Brazil (Leslie Predrotti), Finnish (Heino Keränen), Swedish (Anders Olsson), Russian (Eriksen Translations Inc), Romanian (Péter Henning and Mónika Iancu), Turkish (Ömer Emin Dede)

Today we have released a hotfix for Skype for Windows 3.2.

The newly released version addresses some problems from previous Skype for Windows 3.2 release and it is highly recommended to upgrade to everyone who has Skype version older than 3.2 to this version as it significantly improves call quality.

If you are experienced user then read about our brand new Skype for Windows 3.5 Beta release and try it out.

You can download it straight from here.

Changes compared with previous version are:

• feature: Added Latvian localization done by Intars Students
• improvement: Audio calls improved
• change: Do not accept multichats from not authorized contacts
• change: IE plugin updated
• change: Extras Manager updated to version 1.2.0.261
• bugfix: CCleaner removed 2 Skype related registry entries
• bugfix: Tray icon menu not translated during login
• bugfix: Skype sometimes crashed on password change notification
• bugfix: On rare occasions Skype crashed when opening options.
• bugfix: Skype may have crashed in large multichats
• bugfix: NTLM proxy authentication did not work

Please leave us all your comments and feedback on Skype. You can do it through Skype forums or submit issue reports on our public issue tracker Jira, learn how to do it on our Skype for Windows development page.