[gui-talk] Skype Version 5.0.0.152 is now Available

[Steve Pattison]

Hi all,

The current beta cycle for Skype has ended and Skype version 5.0.0.152
is now available.  One place where you can download it from is at
www.skype.com.  It works well with Window-eyes and probably other screen
readers as well.  Here are the changes and bug fixes in this version:

Calling

Removed post call experience

Contact list

Added an option to disable avatar pictures in contact list.

Fixed issues:

Accessibility

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.

Audio

When the user redialed within 10 seconds the audio was sometimes silent.

Browser plugin

During Skype update it was impossible to change language for Skype browser plugin.
Skype browser plugin was wrongly interpreting US vanity numbers that exceed
11 digits.
Sometimes the browser plugin dropdown menu was shown in the wrong place on the screen.

Call phones

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

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

Call transfer to a phone number not in contact list did not work.
Video was not transmitted after call transfer.

Call view

Occasionally the call view had white boxes instead of texts.

Calling

In rare occasions Skype crashed after changing microphone.

Contact List

Creating a Skype Out contact from recently dialled numbers was malfunctioning.
There were some text formatting errors in Recents list.

Contact search

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.

File Sending

On rare cases file receiver saw a erroneous message ‘The file isn’t available’.

File transfer

Skype sometimes stopped responding when accepting File Transfer in group conversation.

Group video call

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 trial 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.

Localization

There was no support for languages read right to left in profile view.

Login/Logout

Skype opened in focus if Skype was set to autostart.

Miscellaneous

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.

Screen sharing

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.

Skype Access

The Skype Access connection display did not pop-up correctly when trying to connect
to supported hotspot after starting Skype up.

Skype Home

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.

Video

Clicking on the web camera 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.

Video in mood

DailyMotion videos which have been added to a mood message are not being displayed
to other contacts.

Voicemail

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.

Regards Steve
Email:  srp at internode.on.net
MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
Skype:  steve1963
Twitter:  steve9782