Build 2.6.0.44 9th August

• There may be some problems or incompatibility with specific audio devices, which have been working on earlier versions of Skype. Please report all these problems.

• User may experience errors with Internet Explorer Beta 2 installed, we recommend to upgrade to Internet Explorer Beta 3.

• Video is not enabled when plugging in camera while on a call.

• There may be echo problems when using 2 sound devices.

• Firefox plugin will be reinstalled on next Skype installion, even if user has uninstalled it.

New Features:

• New Sound Audio Lirary

• Voice access API

• IE and FF plugins integrated (phone number recognition on web pages)

• Clickable links in mood messages

• Avatars clickable in chat windows

• Added "Clear all missed events" in events panel rightclick menu

Changes:

• quickfilter searches from beginning of words only

• avatar drag and drop ability

Bugfixes:

• country list was not sorted in search window

• Shared Groups: when contact leaves group the text is overlapping with moodmessage

• Mute text should be "unmute" when muted

• answering conference from conf calltab did not cancel traynotification

• Call tab: video start/stop button dissapeared when used during a held call

• Conf call: participant on hold was shown only to host

• Country select list doesn't disappear when clicking somewhere else

• Localized country names in search window did not change, if you changed languages

• Start Video via context menu did not change video button text

• Ending video call did not show avatar again

• There was no way to bookmark chats without a mouse

• FT dialog opened in DND mode

• "011" area code disabled country selection

• Chat message is might have got lost when other party uses embedded device

• Mousewheel scroll did not work when chat memberlist hidden

• notification parameters did not support unicode

• Call tab info was wrong when Skype contact's PSTN number called

• Import Contacts: some text in Russian was not displayed on last dialog in import contacts flow

API changes:

• feature: USER property NROF_AUTHED_BUDDIES

• feature: CALL properties FORWARDED_BY and VAA_INPUT_STATUS

• change: API: moved PONG reply to PING into library thread - now asyncronous