Skype 2.7 for Mac Gold
Skype has just laid a new golden egg, Skype 2.7 for Mac. It gives you a good tool for next 100 billion minutes of Skype calls.
We’ve worked hard to iron out bugs and to improve your overall experience while it was in beta and now with the release of Skype 2.7 Gold for Mac we’re proud to announce that it’s ready for production level usage.
We would like to thank everyone who for the feedback and those who helped us on make it the best version of Skype for Mac yet. Keep the feedback flowing through the Skype forums and our public issue tracker .
Skype 2.7.0.257 brings you following goodies:
* improvement: Optimized quick filtering history
* improvement: Improved connection speed to Skype network from restrictive network environment
* improvement: Improved stability and quality of video
* change: Added (myspace) emoticon
* change: Added error message for SkypeOut error #1102
* change: Default destination folder of file transfers changed from Desktop to Downloads
* change: If there is a pending file transfer then after restarting Skype that pending file transfer will be focused in the file transfer window
* change: New 512px volume icon of dmg
* change: Switched icons in the dmg background image
]]> * bugfix: Skype crashed sometimes when ending video call on Leopard
* bugfix: First videocall sometimes produced green picture
* bugfix: Skype crashed when moving send video windows on Leopard
* bugfix: Language name for Belarusian was wrong
* bugfix: Backspace/delete now clears file transfers in File Transfer window
* bugfix: Chat button was not working in the “Contact was already added” window
* bugfix: Chat command was not enabled in contact’s context menu in contact list
* bugfix: Chat command was not enabled in contact’s context menu in contact search window
* bugfix: Chats were not closed properly sometimes
* bugfix: Crash while moving contact from one chat drawer to another
* bugfix: Dialogs sometimes did not have “View earlier messages” link
* bugfix: Dock -> Change Status -> Invisible was not working
* bugfix: Error message when calling a non authorized contact was not proper English
* bugfix: File transfer group was not visually stopped when some transfers were canceled
* bugfix: File transferring iWork documents failed
* bugfix: Fixed chat rendering on Tiger/Safari 3
* bugfix: File transfer window grabbed focus, when “auto-accept file transfers” option was turned on
* bugfix: File transfer window position was not saved
* bugfix: File transfer window was sometimes messed up when files were sent to multiple recipents
* bugfix: History tab -> Customize Toolbar -> Skype crashed
* bugfix: It was possible to enter a date less than 13 years ago as birth date
* bugfix: Leading spaces in chat messages were removed
* bugfix: Name was missing for SkypeOut Address Book contacts in SMS chats
* bugfix: No error message when new password was the same as the old one
* bugfix: Opening chat window was very slow at startup
* bugfix: Skype crashed when clearing chat topic with backspace and then pressing enter
* bugfix: Chat window emoticons pop-up was sometimes shown in wrong Space on Leopard
* bugfix: SkypeOut credit was shown as FREECALL1.0 for newly created accounts
* bugfix: No scrollbar appeared in the SMS entry field
* bugfix: Sometimes contact was still shown in contact list after being removed from contacts
* bugfix: Sometimes Skype crashed when the number of missed events changed
* bugfix: Start Conference Call: multiple selected contacts were not added
* bugfix: Unable to cancel file transfer after submitting an item into a multichat
* bugfix: Undelivered chat messages were not shown as such after relaunching Skype
* bugfix: Under certain circumstances some users did not show up in quick filtering results
* bugfix: View -> Show Offline Contacts was grayed out if main window was not in focus
* bugfix: Voicemail was sent to contact on some cases when user had selected to cancel sending
* bugfix: When “Show Offline Contacts” was turned off and SkypeOut contacts were added or removed, then contact list was sometimes not refreshed
* bugfix: When “Show Offline Contacts” was turned off, then offline contacts were not included in quick filtering results
* bugfix API: SET PROFILE CALL_FORWARD_RULES did not work when username contained comma
* Localizations updated
* API: added OPEN VIDEOTEST
* API: added OPEN VIDEOTEST-0
* API: added OPEN SEARCH
* API: added OPEN OPTIONS
* API: added OPEN OPTIONS VIDEO
* API: added OPEN SENDCONTACTS
* API: added OPEN VOICEMAIL
* API: added VOICEMAIL
* API: added CALLVOICEMAIL
* API: added OPEN DIALPAD
* API: added OPEN SENDCONTACTS-0
* API: added OPEN IMPORTCONTACTS
* API: added OPEN AUTHORIZATION
* API: added GET UI_LANGUAGE
* API: added SET AUTOAWAY ON/OFF
* API: added BTN_RELEASED UP
* API: added BTN_RELEASED DOWN
* API: added GET CALL
Enjoy.
Yes I downloaded 2.7 but now I cannot startup the program anymore. I have Mac OSX 10.4.11 with a G# Mac. Please HELP!!! More people with the same problem?
Yes I downloaded 2.7 but now I cannot startup the program anymore. I have Mac OSX 10.4.11 with a G3 Mac. Please HELP!!! More people with the same problem?
I got this in my crashlog:
Host Name: Macintosh
Date/Time: 2008-02-18 11:52:56.805 +0100
OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Report Version: 4
Command: Skype
Path: /Volumes/Skype/Skype.app/Contents/MacOS/Skype
Parent: WindowServer [86]
Version: 2.7.0.257 (2.7.0.257)
PID: 447
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
incompatible cpu-subtype
By now, all versions of Skype really should show ‘mobile’ presence icon for users with lovely new 3 Skypephones. Surprised your marketing people haven’t been on to you about that(!). It’s important to know whether the contact is at a computer or travelling, for example. Otherwise – keep up the good work and thanks. Rob.
Since the new version 2.7.0, I have been presenting serious difficulties of sound and video,,I do not understand why you people have to release a new version when the one before was working with a magnificent performance ; I would like to go back to the earlier version, if you can let me know how it can be done , I would appreciated it.
I’ve been a happy sykpe user for several years now and this is the first time I have to encounter such a doggy upgrade.
I’m a mac with Tiger OSX
hi,
1st question _i work on mac leopard, i downloaded and istalled skype 2.7 because i thought i’ll get to see the same windows before me as the ones you show in your sight explaining chats. but the window i get is much simpler. with a gray banner on top. can i get the one with the blue banner on toop and the photo etc on the right side?
2nd question_ when i finish writing my chat is there a button i should press? how do i send the chat or does it go automaticly
3rd question i can’t get to clear chat history and some names with dates from 1984 are stuck there, i can’t get them off. thanks varda
ps. do i get an answer? here?
{MacBook Black Intel 2GHz 2GB RAM OS X Leopard 10.5.2}
Errr… OK. Reading the first post above I would be excited about this new update; if I hadn’t already installed it!
Like the beta before it (2.7.0.95) this version will quickly turn your Mac into a hairdryer. The moment the video kicks in the fans are humming and the CPU is being borrowed on like a sub-prime mortgage. This, rather inevitably, leads to jerky video and sound blips and the app just takes over your system resources.
What really confuses me is that, lately, Skype’s ‘upgrades’ have been terrible for Mac. I have now reverted to 2.6.0.184 – which on OS X 10.5.1 ran like crap and on 10.5.2 seems OK!
Yet on 10.5.1 I used the previous version – 2.6.0.137 – which ran smoothly. My general rule of thumb with Skype now is to avoid the very latest upgrade like a rabid dog; sticking with the penultimate version.
If you can tell me why I should do this when I run a hi-spec machine with the latest OS then I would be very grateful? If you could also tell me why my experiences running Skype on PC were more gratifying – despite every other app and the infernal Windows OS driving me nuts – I’d appreciate that too. In fact I daresay I’d be amazed. Right now, if there were a decent alternative I would NOT be using Skype. (No doubt if my girlfriend had a Mac I’d be using iChat.)
To summarise, I think we might need a new update, already!
Incidentally, lechive – just Google either 2.6.0.184 or 2.6.0.137 and you’ll find them on sites like ‘old apps’ CNET and ZDNET; and various others. Uninstall the latest version altogether and reinstall one of those. This has worked a treat for me lately but I’d dearly ‘latest’ version of Skype to do the job for me.
Incidentally, lechive – just Google either 2.6.0.184 or 2.6.0.137 and you’ll find them on sites like ‘old apps’ CNET and ZDNET; and various others. Uninstall the latest version altogether and reinstall one of those. This has worked a treat for me lately but I’d dearly love a ‘latest’ version of Skype to do the job for me.
i just updated my version to 2.7 and now it opens and don’t respond. it keep saying not responding. what do i do. i cleared the preference com.skype.skype.plist and its still don’t work. but when i use test user it work . so is there another plist item i need to clear or is stored somewhere else?
Doesn’t work for me either. It starts and then says it is logging in for about ten minutes on a Mac Pro with 4GB ram.
It takes OVER 100% of the CPU, the wheel keeps spinning, then it dumps core and crashes.
2.6 worked fine. 2.7 does not. I tried to clear the preference file to fix this, like the user before. But it still does not work. If not in the com.skype… file, where else is skype storing my user name?
I have a friend that is using Skype on a Mac at a university network that is very much locked down and can never sign into Skype on that network. I noticed on my Windows machine, there’s an option to use ports 80 and 443 which would, by default be opened up on the university network since they’re standard internet ports. However, I noticed on my Mac (even after the 2.7 upgrade) there is no such check box, nor can you use those port numbers in the port specification box. I’m not sure if she’s upgraded to 2.7, but she at least has the latest build of 2.6 which had the same list of connection options. Will you be releasing an update that has that option built in, or can you think of another way to fix the problem?
I’m using 2.7 on a MacBook. I’m now having problems with contacts. When I downloaded/installed this version, for some reason it imported all of the contacts from Address Book, and I cannot remove them. When I click on Contacts, Remove from Contacts is grayed. I can delete a Skype contact, but not any of the phone numbers it imported.
I’m having the same problem as markliebman. I’m on a Mac Pro and Skype 2.7.257 was working fine until the update from Apple this week that downloaded through Software Update installed on my Mac Pro. Now when I try to launch Skype, it hangs with the spinning beach ball. I have to force quit the Skype application. I’ve tried completely uninstalling the Skype app and removed all of the preference files and it still just freezes. And I even tried copying a 2.6 version of Skype from my MacBook Pro to my Mac Pro and it still does this same thing even after all of the preference files are removed.
I think this must have something to do with the Skype Code, the Mac Pro and the latest update from Apple the week of 3/10/2008.
My 2ghz macbook runs perfectly except when I am running video to video on skype 2.7. Sometimes it will run for an hour then the computer instantly shuts right off. Other times it will shut off after 5 minutes of video to video. There is no warning at all. It will be running fine, then “click” the computer is off. Any suggestions? I am going to delete the program and try an older version to see if that helps. I have already tried trashing the skype prefs.
Thanks for any help!
Blake
Cannot SMS anymore. The latest Mac version is not working in Australia using Optusnet ISP, bad luck for Skype cause they are loosing money. I still need to try stripping all preferences, check permissions and try clean install. I also see that the latest PC version has the same problem. Better make it work boyz or you may be out of a job. Good Luck.
Have an Ibook with 10.4.11 and web digital camera with Maccam installed ………..double tap skype in application and nothing starts. Do need a lesser version or something?
Please add the option to use port 80 or 443.
Thanks!
Please add the option to use port 80 or 443 for the Mac.
Thanks!
I had to ‘downgrade’ to Skype 2.6 to allow my conversation recorders (Call Recorder & SkypeCap) to work. Was that a Skype developers oversight or do the 3rd party providers have to ‘keep up’ with patches and upgrades?
i buy 10 euro from skype for call
but dosen,t work
massage call faild
what por & connection in advanced sitting
thanks
I work with Mac 10.4.11 –
I need to access the “tools” in order to have access voice mail – Where is it located as I can’t find it anywhere on the menu?
This is really frustrating.