Skype 2.5.0.72 Beta [more=Change]feature: Ability to Send SMS
feature: Predictive Dialer
feature: Shared Groups
feature: View Outlook Contacts
feature: Payments in Client
feature: Improved Account Creation
feature: Improved Upgrade
feature: Call quality Feedback
feature: Simplified Installation
feature: Voice level indicators in conference call
feature: File Transfer resumes after restart of Skype
feature: API group types PROPOSED_SHARED_GROUP and SHARED_GROUP (protocol 6 only), commands ALTER GROUP xx SHARE <text> and ALTER GROUP xx ACCEPT/DENY
feature: API commands GET CALL xx RATE and GET CALL xx RATE_CURRENCY
feature: API commands SET UI_LANGUAGE <iso> and GET UI_LANGUAGE
feature: API command SEARCH MISSEDVOICEMAILS
feature: API commands ALTER CHAT xx BOOKMARK and ALTER CHAT xx UNBOOKMARK, CHAT property BOOKMARKED
feature: API command ALTER VOICEMAIL xx SETUNPLAYED
change: Improved video quality
change: Removed windows platform check for video
change: Disable the Test Webcam button when Skype knows there is no webcam present
change: Improve error message when sending files to Pocket PC users
change: Replaced some ringtones
change: Accessibility: contact mood text accessible via MSAA
change: Accessibility: Implement MSAA support for search results
change: Language file editor has simple search and ordering possibilities
change: Profile window changed to non-modal
change: Clarified 'contact details' in authorization requests
change: Sound file too big error shown already on import
change: Improved dialog wordings
change: Current chat window position at beginning of unread messages when opening the window
change: Only focused emoticon is animated in the emoticons roster
change: API protocol 6
change: API: conference calls that had been made or received with version 2.0 or older are not considered as conf calls any more
change: API: After conference call is finished, CONF_PARTICIPANTS_COUNT shows number of all participants no matter when they had left
change: ew language files Bulgarian (Nikolay Filipov & Nikolina Filipova , Czech (Petr Silon) , German (Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli), Estonian (Eve Loopere), Hungarian (Mark Bender & Laszlo Koncz & Gabor Stefanik), Italian (Daniele Conte) , Norwegian (Stig Auestad), Dutch (Kees Koenders), Polish (Karol Szastok), Portuguese (Francisco Ferreira), French (Fabrice Imperial & Bruno Lépaulard), Spanish (David Reche), Finnish (Heino Keränen), Swedish (Anders Olsson) Turkish (Emin Dede), Romanian (Peter Henning), Arabic (Sophia Hammoudeh from Maktoob / Eriksen), Chinese Simplified (Leon Yang from tom.com) , Chinese Traditional (Carlos Lee, Morden Chen from Pchome), Mayu Shimizu (Japanese), Anna Nystrom (Brasilian Portuguese)
bugfix: SkypeOut call quality deteriorated in long calls over bad network
bugfix: Fixed some corner cases where presence was shown incorrectly
bugfix: Mood message was truncated incorrectly
bugfix: Chinese symbols input to chat window problem with Wubi Input Methods
bugfix: No confirmation on deleting Voicemail
bugfix: Remove my mood message from 'my panel' title when opened
bugfix: Video not updated when on hold
bugfix: Pressing "cancel" did not restore previous settings for Voicemail in options
bugfix: Calling invalid number with callto: did not show error dialog
bugfix: Default action button in multichat for people you have not authorized should be 'add', not 'call'
bugfix: Ampersand does not show correctly on tab header
bugfix: Double click did not work on quickfiltered chats
bugfix: After applying Quick Filter the previous group was changed
bugfix: Could not select URL in chat
bugfix: After adding new SkypeOut number Skype should focus on it
bugfix: When only one contact in the contact list, it should always be expanded
bugfix: Sort order in Contact List does not follow local collation order
bugfix: User Interface language change not applied to error message
bugfix: TypeDown search does not start at focused contact
bugfix: Long filenames were not truncated in File Transfer window
bugfix: API: If APPLICATION for app2app communication was created and closed without deleting it, next time it was impossible to create it again.
bugfix: API: BTN_RELEASED deleted first character entered on Addressbar
bugfix: API: OPEN SENDCONTACTS to multiple targets did not add recipients to form
bugfix: API: Setting TIMEZONE bigger than 86400 was broken
bugfix: API: ALTER VOICEMAIL actions were not returned uppercase
bugfix: API: Sometimes on deleting voicemail notification VOICEMAIL xx STATUS DELETING was missing
bugfix: API: SEARCH MESSAGES <username> returned other users' messages also
known issue: upgrading to 2.5 and downgrading from 2.5 might take time depending on call history length
known issue: conference call participant names lost in call history after upgrade
known issue: DTMF tones from dialpad do not work[/more]
http://download.skype.com/SkypeSetup-Beta.exe