Skype 4.1.0.179

Skype v4.1.0.166 [09-04-09]

Known issues: Category Description Current solution Calling When a user has multiple USB audio devices plugged in, and removes the active device, they will see a message for a couple of seconds informing them that no devices are available. This is rectified automatically within a couple of seconds if another device is found. Audio devices Some types of Broadcom Bluetooth audio hardware need to contact Skype in order to operate – in which case the following message is displayed: “BTSTAC~1.EXE wants to use Skype” If you have a Broadcom Bluetooth device and experience this issue, then you should try to update the drivers for that hardware. Otherwise, it is safe to Allow access. The issue has been reported to the manufacturer. Audio devices If a participant in a conference call is using a Bluetooth enabled device from Broadcom, the conference call will be terminated when they hang-up the call. Disable btstack.exe (Tools > Options > Advanced > Manage other programs’ access to Skype). Video Digital video cameras cannot be used to make video calls on Skype. None available at this time. Using YouCam to change special affects on a Skype video call will cause Skype to freeze. None available at this time. Skype may freeze when starting video if the Creative Webcam NX Pro (VFW) normally used is not plugged in. Workaround: This is a third party software issue and users are advised to ensure the webcam is plugged in before selecting the option to “Start video” Known Third Party issue Busy hard disk Skype can become unresponsive when the hard drive is busy. Users are advised to wait for a few seconds for the hard disk activity to reduce. Busy hard disk / startup Users with a large amount of Skype history may find that Skype takes longer than normal to start. Reducing the number of items in the Conversations tab helps alleviate this problem slightly – our engineers are currently working on further solutions. Conference calling Conference calls, which include one or more landline or mobile participants are not placed on hold correctly. The call host and the users on their landline or mobile are not placed on hold – however all other users are. None available at this time. Installation Users cannot uninstall the Skype browser highlighter for Firefox (Vista only). Users are advised to install a patch provided by Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951847 Upgrade When upgrading Skype, and installing the Skype plug-in for Firefox, users may experience a crash in Firefox if it is running during the upgrade Close Firefox before attempting to install Skype. Screen sharing Resizing selected area (constantly dragging mouse for more than 20 seconds) causes the system to freeze This is resolved by Microsoft Hotfix #954436, and included in Vista Service Pack 2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954436. Miscellaneous Certain graphical components may be misaligned when running Skype with a high graphics DPI setting. None available at this time. Fixed issues: Category Description Instant Messaging Text moved on screen when something was added to conversation while user was scrolling it. Users were unable to copy and paste text from instant messaging (IM) text field into another application Audio / Video Some webcams were not detected by Skype Video froze with some webcams A long delay occurred when a user opted to start video during a call Skype occasionally froze when selecting video options. Accessibility Skype crashed when focusing, with alt+tab, communicator message in compact view Some controls were inaccessible via keyboard navigation Miscellaneous An incorrect informative message appeared when selecting the option “Make a test call” from the Welcome Screen An incorrect informative message was displayed when creating a Skype account starting with a numeric symbol Users were not able to enter a password which contained the same characters used in their Skype name The Link “Learn more about SMS” was pointing to an incorrect help page. Users were advised incorrectly of the Password length. Skype froze when selecting the option Ctrl+Alt+Delete followed by Task Manager. When editing a phone number on an existing landline or mobile contact, the entry was deleted and replaced with the new number Skype crashed on startup on CPU's which did not support SSE technology Authorization Requests URL Links are no longer clickable within authorization requests Toolbars The Firefox Add-On would slow down page rendering even when highlighting was switched off The games Mafia Wars http://www.myspace.com/zyngamafiawars was not available when Skype plug-in was installed Account Names which contained two characters or less were not recognised. Localization All localization files associated with the abovementioned fixes have been updated 21.07.2009 Skype 4.1.0.141 for Windows Release Notes Document Known issues: Category Description Current solution Calling When a user has multiple USB audio devices plugged in, and removes the active device, they will see a message for a couple of seconds informing them that no devices are available. This is rectified automatically within a couple of seconds if another device is found. Audio devices Some types of Broadcom Bluetooth audio hardware need to contact Skype in order to operate – in which case the following message is displayed: “BTSTAC~1.EXE wants to use Skype” If you have a Broadcom Bluetooth device and experience this issue, then you should try to update the drivers for that hardware. Otherwise, it is safe to Allow access. The issue has been reported to the manufacturer. Audio devices If a participant in a conference call is using a Bluetooth enabled device from Broadcom, the conference call will be terminated when they hang-up the call. Disable btstack.exe (Tools > Options > Advanced > Manage other programs’ access to Skype). Video Digital video cameras cannot be used to make video calls on Skype. None available at this time. Busy hard disk Skype can become unresponsive when the hard drive is busy. Users are advised to wait for a few seconds for the hard disk activity to reduce. Busy hard disk / startup Users with a large amount of Skype history may find that Skype takes longer than normal to start. Reducing the number of items in the Conversations tab helps alleviate this problem slightly – our engineers are currently working on further solutions. Conference calling Conference calls which include one or more SkypeOut participants are not placed on hold correctly. The call host and the SkypeOut users are not placed on hold – however all other users are. None available at this time. Installation Users cannot uninstall the Skype browser highlighter for Firefox (Vista only). Users are advised to install a patch provided by Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951847 Upgrade When upgrading Skype, and installing the Skype plugin for Firefox, users may experience a crash in Firefox if it is running during the upgrade Close Firefox before attempting to install Skype. Screen sharing Resizing selected area (constantly dragging mouse for more than 20 seconds) causes the system to freeze This is resolved by Microsoft Hotfix #954436, and included in Vista Service Pack 2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954436. Miscellaneous Emoticons in a mood message appear with plain text Ensure there is a space either side of the emoticon. Fixed issues: Category Description Toolbars Improved stability and performance to the IE Add-on 30.06.2009 Skype 4.1.0.136 for Windows Release Notes Document Known issues: Category Description Current solution Calling When a user has multiple USB audio devices plugged in, and removes the active device, they will see a message for a couple of seconds informing them that no devices are available. This is rectified automatically within a couple of seconds if another device is found. Audio devices Some types of Broadcom Bluetooth audio hardware need to contact Skype in order to operate – in which case the following message is displayed: “BTSTAC~1.EXE wants to use Skype” If you have a Broadcom Bluetooth device and experience this issue, then you should try to update the drivers for that hardware. Otherwise, it is safe to Allow access. The issue has been reported to the manufacturer. Audio devices If a participant in a conference call is using a Bluetooth enabled device from Broadcom, the conference call will be terminated when they hang-up the call. Disable btstack.exe (Tools > Options > Advanced > Manage other programs’ access to Skype). Video Digital video cameras cannot be used to make video calls on Skype. None available at this time. Busy hard disk Skype can become unresponsive when the hard drive is busy. Users are advised to wait for a few seconds for the hard disk activity to reduce. Busy hard disk / startup Users with a large amount of Skype history may find that Skype takes longer than normal to start. Reducing the number of items in the Conversations tab helps alleviate this problem slightly – our engineers are currently working on further solutions. Conference calling Conference calls which include one or more SkypeOut participants are not placed on hold correctly. The call host and the SkypeOut users are not placed on hold – however all other users are. None available at this time. Installation Users cannot uninstall the Skype browser highlighter for Firefox (Vista only). Users are advised to install a patch provided by Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951847 Upgrade When upgrading Skype, and installing the Skype plugin for Firefox, users may experience a crash in Firefox if it is running during the upgrade Close Firefox before attempting to install Skype. Screen sharing Resizing selected area (constantly dragging mouse for more than 20 seconds) causes the system to freeze This is resolved by Microsoft Hotfix #954436, and included in Vista Service Pack 2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954436. Miscellaneous Emoticons in a mood message appear with plain text Ensure there is a space either side of the emoticon. Fixed issues: Category Description Calling Call status was sometimes displayed as “Ringing” after the call had started. Error message sometimes appeared when selecting the “Learn about Call Quality” link from the Call toolbar. Users were unable to call a contact again after rejecting the same contact from a previous conference call. No sound was heard when connecting a second USB device, even when it was selected as the default option. Skype automatically adjusted user’s microphone levels during a call even when they had disabled this option. Skype did not warn users when they tried to answer a call without any active audio devices being available.  Auto-answer of incoming calls failed after multiple calls in quick succession Dialpad is now visible when starting a call rather than when a call is connected. Instant Messaging Users were not notified when a file had been sent in a group IM conversation. When copying and pasting a web address (URL) links within the same instant messages, the URL appears as a blank line. When copying a large amount of text, (approximately 20 lines) from the same IM, and pasting it to the text input field, users no longer had the ability to scroll or edit that particular text Users were unable to copy and paste from an SMS message. The copy/paste menu did not appear when right clicking in the IM input field area Dragging and dropping quoted text to the chat text box caused Skype to crash for some users. No message displayed when two users were calling at the same time, only the end call button was displayed. Contacts Users were not re-displayed in the contact list after they had been unblocked. After renaming a contact, the name would revert back to its original name following a restart. Some users were unable to drag and drop a contact to a group conversation. It was not always clear that MySpace contacts had been found during contact search. Quick filter results were displayed incorrectly after previously selecting two contacts at the same time. Echo 123 was sometimes not available for newly created accounts. Blocking users was ineffective in some cases. No tooltips were visible for participants in a group conversation. Unable to edit a SkypeOut contact’s phone number more than once.  Contact categories were ordered differently from the contact list.  History Links to previous IM’s within an existing chat (Yesterday, Last 7 days, etc) did not show in some scenarios SMS When an SMS was sent to a SkypeOut contact whose profile contained  multiple phone numbers, the SMS would always go to the first number even if the user had selected an alternate phone number tab. Formatting of “quoted text” was displayed incorrectly. Users were unable to copy / paste from SMS messages. Audio / Video Skype detected a Creative Live webcam even though the device was not connected.  A “New Audio Device” Communicator message appeared on every start up for some users Nothing happened when clicking the “remove” button to delete multiple devices from Audio Settings drop down menu. Only one USB device was visible in the drop down menu when more than one was available. When receiving video calls from a Skype for Mac user, the Windows user saw an “On Hold” graphic when the incoming video was stopped. Some users were unable to undock from a docking station when a webcam was in use. The “Video Call” option was incorrectly made available when users made a SkypeOut call. Video was still displayed when user turned off video while a call was on hold. Video snapshot images appeared black when saved. Fixes for a small number of webcams that were not detected. Video did not start, if Skype was running on a secondary screen. When two identical USB audio devices were plugged in, only one device is displayed in the list in Tools > Options > Audio Settings > Advanced. Compact / Default view switching When switching from Compact View to Default View the display position was incorrect. Accessibility Voicemail and File Transfer are now accessible via keyboard navigation. Miscellaneous Fix for “Disk I/O error”. If user still experiences this ensure that the appdata/skype/username directory is not read-only, if this does not resolve the issue please contact Customer Support. Emoticons were still displayed even when this option was disabled. Skype crashed on Windows Server 2008 R2. Error message: “Unterminated entry” sometimes displayed when starting Skype. Users on the "LITE” version of Skype will be displayed as "Unknown" in Conference calls. 27.05.2009 Skype 4.1.0.130 Beta for Windows Release Notes Document

• feature: Screen sharing
• feature: Accessibility
• feature: Skype name highlighting on webpages
• feature: Free call phone number highlighting on webpages
• feature: Contacts sending
• feature: Birthday reminders
• improvement: Audio and Video engine updated
• improvement: Ability to import more contacts from more source
• improvement: Updated Skype for Internet Explorer plugin
• improvement: Updated Skype for Firefox plugin
• bugfix: Skype Internet Explorer plugin did not work with Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7
• bugfix: New Audio device communicator message appeared on every start-up
• bugfix: Dialpad did not open when starting a call, but opened when call was connected
• bugfix: Some menu items in Hebrew and Arabic language showed out as ????
• bugfix: Skype crashed on shutdown sometimes
• bugfix: GDI+ error was displayed when running Skype on Windows 7
• bugfix: Not all audio devices were shown out under audio options
• bugfix: When copying longer text message from one Instant Message to another then you did not have possibility to edit it's controls
• bugfix: Skype crashed when dragging and dropping quoted chat messages
• bugfix: Quick-filtering sometimes highlighted contacts incorrectly
• bugfix: Profile text was cut off when person has emoticon on their 'about me' text
• bugfix: A user was unable to edit contacts phone number more than once
• bugfix: Skype showed that webcam is present, but busy when it was disconnected for some Creative webcams
• bugfix: It was not possible to remove duplicate entries from audio devices list
• bugfix: On client upgrade "View technical release notes for this update" link did not work.
• All language localizations updated: Bulgarian - Nikolina Filipova & Nikolay Filipov, Czech - Petr Silon, Dutch - Kees Koenders, Estonian - Viljar Sepp & Eve Loopere, Greek - Panagiotis Sidiropoulos http://www.magenta.gr, French - Fabrice IMPERIAL & Bruno Lépaulard, German - Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli, Hungarian - Mark Bender & Laszlo Koncz & Gabor Stefanik, Italian - Daniele Conte, Latvian - Intars Students, Lithuanian - Viktoras Kriukovas, Norwegian - Stig Auestad, Polish - Karol Szastok, Portuguese-Portugal - Francisco Ferreira, Romanian - Péter Henning and Mónika Iancu, Simplified Chinese - Della Wang (TOM.com), Traditional Chinese - Carlos Lee (PChome), Turkish - Ömer Emin Dede

Skype v4.1.0.141 [08-16-09]

Known issues: Category Description Current solution Calling When a user has multiple USB audio devices plugged in, and removes the active device, they will see a message for a couple of seconds informing them that no devices are available. This is rectified automatically within a couple of seconds if another device is found. Audio devices Some types of Broadcom Bluetooth audio hardware need to contact Skype in order to operate – in which case the following message is displayed: “BTSTAC~1.EXE wants to use Skype” If you have a Broadcom Bluetooth device and experience this issue, then you should try to update the drivers for that hardware. Otherwise, it is safe to Allow access. The issue has been reported to the manufacturer. Audio devices If a participant in a conference call is using a Bluetooth enabled device from Broadcom, the conference call will be terminated when they hang-up the call. Disable btstack.exe (Tools > Options > Advanced > Manage other programs’ access to Skype). Video Digital video cameras cannot be used to make video calls on Skype. None available at this time. Busy hard disk Skype can become unresponsive when the hard drive is busy. Users are advised to wait for a few seconds for the hard disk activity to reduce. Busy hard disk / startup Users with a large amount of Skype history may find that Skype takes longer than normal to start. Reducing the number of items in the Conversations tab helps alleviate this problem slightly – our engineers are currently working on further solutions. Conference calling Conference calls which include one or more SkypeOut participants are not placed on hold correctly. The call host and the SkypeOut users are not placed on hold – however all other users are. None available at this time. Installation Users cannot uninstall the Skype browser highlighter for Firefox (Vista only). Users are advised to install a patch provided by Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951847 Upgrade When upgrading Skype, and installing the Skype plugin for Firefox, users may experience a crash in Firefox if it is running during the upgrade Close Firefox before attempting to install Skype. Screen sharing Resizing selected area (constantly dragging mouse for more than 20 seconds) causes the system to freeze This is resolved by Microsoft Hotfix #954436, and included in Vista Service Pack 2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954436. Miscellaneous Emoticons in a mood message appear with plain text Ensure there is a space either side of the emoticon. Fixed issues: Category Description Toolbars Improved stability and performance to the IE Add-on 30.06.2009 Skype 4.1.0.136 for Windows Release Notes Document Known issues: Category Description Current solution Calling When a user has multiple USB audio devices plugged in, and removes the active device, they will see a message for a couple of seconds informing them that no devices are available. This is rectified automatically within a couple of seconds if another device is found. Audio devices Some types of Broadcom Bluetooth audio hardware need to contact Skype in order to operate – in which case the following message is displayed: “BTSTAC~1.EXE wants to use Skype” If you have a Broadcom Bluetooth device and experience this issue, then you should try to update the drivers for that hardware. Otherwise, it is safe to Allow access. The issue has been reported to the manufacturer. Audio devices If a participant in a conference call is using a Bluetooth enabled device from Broadcom, the conference call will be terminated when they hang-up the call. Disable btstack.exe (Tools > Options > Advanced > Manage other programs’ access to Skype). Video Digital video cameras cannot be used to make video calls on Skype. None available at this time. Busy hard disk Skype can become unresponsive when the hard drive is busy. Users are advised to wait for a few seconds for the hard disk activity to reduce. Busy hard disk / startup Users with a large amount of Skype history may find that Skype takes longer than normal to start. Reducing the number of items in the Conversations tab helps alleviate this problem slightly – our engineers are currently working on further solutions. Conference calling Conference calls which include one or more SkypeOut participants are not placed on hold correctly. The call host and the SkypeOut users are not placed on hold – however all other users are. None available at this time. Installation Users cannot uninstall the Skype browser highlighter for Firefox (Vista only). Users are advised to install a patch provided by Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951847 Upgrade When upgrading Skype, and installing the Skype plugin for Firefox, users may experience a crash in Firefox if it is running during the upgrade Close Firefox before attempting to install Skype. Screen sharing Resizing selected area (constantly dragging mouse for more than 20 seconds) causes the system to freeze This is resolved by Microsoft Hotfix #954436, and included in Vista Service Pack 2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954436. Miscellaneous Emoticons in a mood message appear with plain text Ensure there is a space either side of the emoticon. Fixed issues: Category Description Calling Call status was sometimes displayed as “Ringing” after the call had started. Error message sometimes appeared when selecting the “Learn about Call Quality” link from the Call toolbar. Users were unable to call a contact again after rejecting the same contact from a previous conference call. No sound was heard when connecting a second USB device, even when it was selected as the default option. Skype automatically adjusted user’s microphone levels during a call even when they had disabled this option. Skype did not warn users when they tried to answer a call without any active audio devices being available.  Auto-answer of incoming calls failed after multiple calls in quick succession Dialpad is now visible when starting a call rather than when a call is connected. Instant Messaging Users were not notified when a file had been sent in a group IM conversation. When copying and pasting a web address (URL) links within the same instant messages, the URL appears as a blank line. When copying a large amount of text, (approximately 20 lines) from the same IM, and pasting it to the text input field, users no longer had the ability to scroll or edit that particular text Users were unable to copy and paste from an SMS message. The copy/paste menu did not appear when right clicking in the IM input field area Dragging and dropping quoted text to the chat text box caused Skype to crash for some users. No message displayed when two users were calling at the same time, only the end call button was displayed. Contacts Users were not re-displayed in the contact list after they had been unblocked. After renaming a contact, the name would revert back to its original name following a restart. Some users were unable to drag and drop a contact to a group conversation. It was not always clear that MySpace contacts had been found during contact search. Quick filter results were displayed incorrectly after previously selecting two contacts at the same time. Echo 123 was sometimes not available for newly created accounts. Blocking users was ineffective in some cases. No tooltips were visible for participants in a group conversation. Unable to edit a SkypeOut contact’s phone number more than once.  Contact categories were ordered differently from the contact list.  History Links to previous IM’s within an existing chat (Yesterday, Last 7 days, etc) did not show in some scenarios SMS When an SMS was sent to a SkypeOut contact whose profile contained  multiple phone numbers, the SMS would always go to the first number even if the user had selected an alternate phone number tab. Formatting of “quoted text” was displayed incorrectly. Users were unable to copy / paste from SMS messages. Audio / Video Skype detected a Creative Live webcam even though the device was not connected.  A “New Audio Device” Communicator message appeared on every start up for some users Nothing happened when clicking the “remove” button to delete multiple devices from Audio Settings drop down menu. Only one USB device was visible in the drop down menu when more than one was available. When receiving video calls from a Skype for Mac user, the Windows user saw an “On Hold” graphic when the incoming video was stopped. Some users were unable to undock from a docking station when a webcam was in use. The “Video Call” option was incorrectly made available when users made a SkypeOut call. Video was still displayed when user turned off video while a call was on hold. Video snapshot images appeared black when saved. Fixes for a small number of webcams that were not detected. Video did not start, if Skype was running on a secondary screen. When two identical USB audio devices were plugged in, only one device is displayed in the list in Tools > Options > Audio Settings > Advanced. Compact / Default view switching When switching from Compact View to Default View the display position was incorrect. Accessibility Voicemail and File Transfer are now accessible via keyboard navigation. Miscellaneous Fix for “Disk I/O error”. If user still experiences this ensure that the appdata/skype/username directory is not read-only, if this does not resolve the issue please contact Customer Support. Emoticons were still displayed even when this option was disabled. Skype crashed on Windows Server 2008 R2. Error message: “Unterminated entry” sometimes displayed when starting Skype. Users on the "LITE” version of Skype will be displayed as "Unknown" in Conference calls. 27.05.2009 Skype 4.1.0.130 Beta for Windows Release Notes Document feature: Screen sharing feature: Accessibility feature: Skype name highlighting on webpages feature: Free call phone number highlighting on webpages feature: Contacts sending feature: Birthday reminders improvement: Audio and Video engine updated improvement: Ability to import more contacts from more source improvement: Updated Skype for Internet Explorer plugin improvement: Updated Skype for Firefox plugin bugfix: Skype Internet Explorer plugin did not work with Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 bugfix: New Audio device communicator message appeared on every start-up bugfix: Dialpad did not open when starting a call, but opened when call was connected bugfix: Some menu items in Hebrew and Arabic language showed out as ???? bugfix: Skype crashed on shutdown sometimes bugfix: GDI+ error was displayed when running Skype on Windows 7 bugfix: Not all audio devices were shown out under audio options bugfix: When copying longer text message from one Instant Message to another then you did not have possibility to edit it's controls bugfix: Skype crashed when dragging and dropping quoted chat messages bugfix: Quick-filtering sometimes highlighted contacts incorrectly bugfix: Profile text was cut off when person has emoticon on their 'about me' text bugfix: A user was unable to edit contacts phone number more than once bugfix: Skype showed that webcam is present, but busy when it was disconnected for some Creative webcams bugfix: It was not possible to remove duplicate entries from audio devices list bugfix: On client upgrade "View technical release notes for this update" link did not work. All language localizations updated: Bulgarian - Nikolina Filipova & Nikolay Filipov, Czech - Petr Silon, Dutch - Kees Koenders, Estonian - Viljar Sepp & Eve Loopere, Greek - Panagiotis Sidiropoulos http://www.magenta.gr, French - Fabrice IMPERIAL & Bruno Lépaulard, German - Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli, Hungarian - Mark Bender & Laszlo Koncz & Gabor Stefanik, Italian - Daniele Conte, Latvian - Intars Students, Lithuanian - Viktoras Kriukovas, Norwegian - Stig Auestad, Polish - Karol Szastok, Portuguese-Portugal - Francisco Ferreira, Romanian - Péter Henning and Mónika Iancu, Simplified Chinese - Della Wang (TOM.com), Traditional Chinese - Carlos Lee (PChome), Turkish - Ömer Emin Dede

Skype v4.1.0.136 [07-01-09]

Known issues: Category Description Current solution Calling When a user has multiple USB audio devices plugged in, and removes the active device, they will see a message for a couple of seconds informing them that no devices are available. This is rectified automatically within a couple of seconds if another device is found. Audio devices Some types of Broadcom Bluetooth audio hardware need to contact Skype in order to operate – in which case the following message is displayed: “BTSTAC~1.EXE wants to use Skype” If you have a Broadcom Bluetooth device and experience this issue, then you should try to update the drivers for that hardware. Otherwise, it is safe to Allow access. The issue has been reported to the manufacturer. Audio devices If a participant in a conference call is using a Bluetooth enabled device from Broadcom, the conference call will be terminated when they hang-up the call. Disable btstack.exe (Tools > Options > Advanced > Manage other programs’ access to Skype). Video Digital video cameras cannot be used to make video calls on Skype. None available at this time. Busy hard disk Skype can become unresponsive when the hard drive is busy. Users are advised to wait for a few seconds for the hard disk activity to reduce. Busy hard disk / startup Users with a large amount of Skype history may find that Skype takes longer than normal to start. Reducing the number of items in the Conversations tab helps alleviate this problem slightly – our engineers are currently working on further solutions. Conference calling Conference calls which include one or more SkypeOut participants are not placed on hold correctly. The call host and the SkypeOut users are not placed on hold – however all other users are. None available at this time. Installation Users cannot uninstall the Skype browser highlighter for Firefox (Vista only). Users are advised to install a patch provided by Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951847 Upgrade When upgrading Skype, and installing the Skype plugin for Firefox, users may experience a crash in Firefox if it is running during the upgrade Close Firefox before attempting to install Skype. Screen sharing Resizing selected area (constantly dragging mouse for more than 20 seconds) causes the system to freeze This is resolved by Microsoft Hotfix #954436, and included in Vista Service Pack 2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954436. Miscellaneous Emoticons in a mood message appear with plain text Ensure there is a space either side of the emoticon. Fixed issues: Category Description Calling Call status was sometimes displayed as “Ringing” after the call had started. Error message sometimes appeared when selecting the “Learn about Call Quality” link from the Call toolbar. Users were unable to call a contact again after rejecting the same contact from a previous conference call. No sound was heard when connecting a second USB device, even when it was selected as the default option. Skype automatically adjusted user’s microphone levels during a call even when they had disabled this option. Skype did not warn users when they tried to answer a call without any active audio devices being available.  Auto-answer of incoming calls failed after multiple calls in quick succession Dialpad is now visible when starting a call rather than when a call is connected. Instant Messaging Users were not notified when a file had been sent in a group IM conversation. When copying and pasting a web address (URL) links within the same instant messages, the URL appears as a blank line. When copying a large amount of text, (approximately 20 lines) from the same IM, and pasting it to the text input field, users no longer had the ability to scroll or edit that particular text Users were unable to copy and paste from an SMS message. The copy/paste menu did not appear when right clicking in the IM input field area Dragging and dropping quoted text to the chat text box caused Skype to crash for some users. No message displayed when two users were calling at the same time, only the end call button was displayed. Contacts Users were not re-displayed in the contact list after they had been unblocked. After renaming a contact, the name would revert back to its original name following a restart. Some users were unable to drag and drop a contact to a group conversation. It was not always clear that MySpace contacts had been found during contact search. Quick filter results were displayed incorrectly after previously selecting two contacts at the same time. Echo 123 was sometimes not available for newly created accounts. Blocking users was ineffective in some cases. No tooltips were visible for participants in a group conversation. Unable to edit a SkypeOut contact’s phone number more than once.  Contact categories were ordered differently from the contact list.  History Links to previous IM’s within an existing chat (Yesterday, Last 7 days, etc) did not show in some scenarios SMS When an SMS was sent to a SkypeOut contact whose profile contained  multiple phone numbers, the SMS would always go to the first number even if the user had selected an alternate phone number tab. Formatting of “quoted text” was displayed incorrectly. Users were unable to copy / paste from SMS messages. Audio / Video Skype detected a Creative Live webcam even though the device was not connected.  A “New Audio Device” Communicator message appeared on every start up for some users Nothing happened when clicking the “remove” button to delete multiple devices from Audio Settings drop down menu. Only one USB device was visible in the drop down menu when more than one was available. When receiving video calls from a Skype for Mac user, the Windows user saw an “On Hold” graphic when the incoming video was stopped. Some users were unable to undock from a docking station when a webcam was in use. The “Video Call” option was incorrectly made available when users made a SkypeOut call. Video was still displayed when user turned off video while a call was on hold. Video snapshot images appeared black when saved. Fixes for a small number of webcams that were not detected. Video did not start, if Skype was running on a secondary screen. When two identical USB audio devices were plugged in, only one device is displayed in the list in Tools > Options > Audio Settings > Advanced. Compact / Default view switching When switching from Compact View to Default View the display position was incorrect. Accessibility Voicemail and File Transfer are now accessible via keyboard navigation. Miscellaneous Fix for “Disk I/O error”. If user still experiences this ensure that the appdata/skype/username directory is not read-only, if this does not resolve the issue please contact Customer Support. Emoticons were still displayed even when this option was disabled. Skype crashed on Windows Server 2008 R2. Error message: “Unterminated entry” sometimes displayed when starting Skype. Users on the "LITE” version of Skype will be displayed as "Unknown" in Conference calls. 27.05.2009 Skype 4.1.0.130 Beta for Windows Release Notes Document feature: Screen sharing feature: Accessibility feature: Skype name highlighting on webpages feature: Free call phone number highlighting on webpages feature: Contacts sending feature: Birthday reminders improvement: Audio and Video engine updated improvement: Ability to import more contacts from more source improvement: Updated Skype for Internet Explorer plugin improvement: Updated Skype for Firefox plugin bugfix: Skype Internet Explorer plugin did not work with Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 bugfix: New Audio device communicator message appeared on every start-up bugfix: Dialpad did not open when starting a call, but opened when call was connected bugfix: Some menu items in Hebrew and Arabic language showed out as ???? bugfix: Skype crashed on shutdown sometimes bugfix: GDI+ error was displayed when running Skype on Windows 7 bugfix: Not all audio devices were shown out under audio options bugfix: When copying longer text message from one Instant Message to another then you did not have possibility to edit it's controls bugfix: Skype crashed when dragging and dropping quoted chat messages bugfix: Quick-filtering sometimes highlighted contacts incorrectly bugfix: Profile text was cut off when person has emoticon on their 'about me' text bugfix: A user was unable to edit contacts phone number more than once bugfix: Skype showed that webcam is present, but busy when it was disconnected for some Creative webcams bugfix: It was not possible to remove duplicate entries from audio devices list bugfix: On client upgrade "View technical release notes for this update" link did not work. All language localizations updated: Bulgarian - Nikolina Filipova & Nikolay Filipov, Czech - Petr Silon, Dutch - Kees Koenders, Estonian - Viljar Sepp & Eve Loopere, Greek - Panagiotis Sidiropoulos http://www.magenta.gr, French - Fabrice IMPERIAL & Bruno Lépaulard, German - Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli, Hungarian - Mark Bender & Laszlo Koncz & Gabor Stefanik, Italian - Daniele Conte, Latvian - Intars Students, Lithuanian - Viktoras Kriukovas, Norwegian - Stig Auestad, Polish - Karol Szastok, Portuguese-Portugal - Francisco Ferreira, Romanian - Péter Henning and Mónika Iancu, Simplified Chinese - Della Wang (TOM.com), Traditional Chinese - Carlos Lee (PChome), Turkish - Ömer Emin Dede

Skype v4.1.0.130 Beta [06-13-09]

feature: Screen sharing feature: Accessibility feature: Skype name highlighting on webpages feature: Free call phone number highlighting on webpages feature: Contacts sending feature: Birthday reminders improvement: Audio and Video engine updated improvement: Ability to import more contacts from more source improvement: Updated Skype for Internet Explorer plugin improvement: Updated Skype for Firefox plugin bugfix: Skype Internet Explorer plugin did not work with Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 bugfix: New Audio device communicator message appeared on every start-up bugfix: Dialpad did not open when starting a call, but opened when call was connected bugfix: Some menu items in Hebrew and Arabic language showed out as ???? bugfix: Skype crashed on shutdown sometimes bugfix: GDI+ error was displayed when running Skype on Windows 7 bugfix: Not all audio devices were shown out under audio options bugfix: When copying longer text message from one Instant Message to another then you did not have possibility to edit it's controls bugfix: Skype crashed when dragging and dropping quoted chat messages bugfix: Quick-filtering sometimes highlighted contacts incorrectly bugfix: Profile text was cut off when person has emoticon on their 'about me' text bugfix: A user was unable to edit contacts phone number more than once bugfix: Skype showed that webcam is present, but busy when it was disconnected for some Creative webcams bugfix: It was not possible to remove duplicate entries from audio devices list bugfix: On client upgrade "View technical release notes for this update" link did not work. All language localizations updated: Bulgarian - Nikolina Filipova & Nikolay Filipov, Czech - Petr Silon, Dutch - Kees Koenders, Estonian - Viljar Sepp & Eve Loopere, Greek - Panagiotis Sidiropoulos http://www.magenta.gr, French - Fabrice IMPERIAL & Bruno Lépaulard, German - Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli, Hungarian - Mark Bender & Laszlo Koncz & Gabor Stefanik, Italian - Daniele Conte, Latvian - Intars Students, Lithuanian - Viktoras Kriukovas, Norwegian - Stig Auestad, Polish - Karol Szastok, Portuguese-Portugal - Francisco Ferreira, Romanian - Péter Henning and Mónika Iancu, Simplified Chinese - Della Wang (TOM.com), Traditional Chinese - Carlos Lee (PChome), Turkish - Ömer Emin Dede