Skype announced Skype for Mac 1.4.0.49 Thursday. Three key features:

1. It is a Universal build of Skype for Mac. According to Nils on the Skype Mac blog post: "Universal means that Skype now runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers, boosting the performance of Skype running on Intel Macs."
2. It supports web presence, so others can see your Skype status via your web page, like we do here on Skype Journal.
3. There is Traditional Chinese support with "more languages to follow".

Last week my daughter bought a new MacBook Pro. First request on starting up and setting up users: it asks to take your picture with its built-in webcam to be used as an element of the User's profile. Seems like true support for these Intel-based Macs would mean that Skype for the Mac would include Skype video. So the real question from anxious Mac users is: "When will we see Skype '2.x' for Mac?"

More at voipweblog, Macworld. One known issue: "Users who created their account on Intel-based computers will not be able to revert to earlier versions of Skype, after they have installed Skype 1.4.0.49."