Skype 5.3 for Windows: Improved received video quality on calls with mobiles and quality improvements
We have just released Skype 5.3 for Windows.
For this release, we’ve spent the majority of our time improving Skype’s call quality, and have fixed a number of bugs.
We would recomend to upgrade now and let us know how you like the new version via discussing matters on our forums or in case something unexpected happens, then please report it to us via our public issue tracker.
In addition to these quality-related efforts we have also introduced some feature improvements:
- Improved quality of video received from Skype on mobile devices
- Skype shows users’ presence icons on collapsed contact profile cards
- Conversation topic editing button is now always available on the conversation header
- If a phone number is added to a profile after a failed call attempt, Skype starts a call automatically
- Automatically switch to SMS entry after user adds mobile phone number to profile after failing to send SMS due to lack of phone number
Further details about the tweaks introduced on this version:
Improved quality of video received from Skype on mobile devices.
We have improved the quality of the received video from the mobile Skype clients by rotating the video on the computer side, where more processing power is available. It enables us to send a higher resolution video from the mobile devices.
Skype shows users’ presence icons on collapsed contact profile cards.
We have re-introduced to show a presence icon on a collapsed contact profile card. It enables the user to see the conversations partners presence state while being able to reduce the profile information to minimum.
Conversation topic editing button is now always available on the conversation header.
A small “i” button is displayed in the header of all conversations. This button allows you to change the conversation topic.
Full release notes for 5.3.0.108 are:
Improvements:
- Improved quality of video received from Skype on mobile devices
- Skype shows users’ presence icons on collapsed contact profile cards
- Conversation topic editing button is now always available on the conversation header
- If a phone number is added to a profile after a failed call attempt, Skype starts a call automatically
- Automatically switch to SMS entry after user adds mobile phone number to profile after failing to send SMS due to lack of phone number
Fixed issues:
| Category | Description |
| Video | Video sending was sometimes not started if user had set computer to auto-answer and to start sending video. |
| Outlook contacts | Outlook contacts without country code gave an error message triggered error message when trying to call them after adding country code |
| Call Quality Indicator | Two call Quality Indicators were opened if user change from default mode to compact mode when Call Quality Indicator was visible. |
| Call Phones | Call Phones number suggestion made it hard to call short numbers |
| Instant Messaging | Long, not yet sent, IM entry was getting deleted when switching to SMS mode in conversation |
| Call Phones | SMS button for emergency numbers was not disabled |
| Screen sharing | In case user who is not in your contact list tried to share a screen with you and then receiver declined, the sender was still seeing that he is sharing a screen. |
| Calling | In compact mode call was not sent to full screen if user chose it from the main menu. |
| Calling | No credits popup on failed call showed rates for users default country and not a country where he tried to call. |
| Call Phones | Call phones localizations did not fit into user interface in some languages |
| Contact list | It was not possible to delete contacts from the contact list by pressing ‘delete’ key on keyboard |
| Instant Messaging | When replacing a quote with a new quote then all the further messages sent to conversation appeared as quotes. |
| Screen sharing | It was not possible to stop a screen sharing on a recovered call. |
| File sending | Cancelling file transfer dialog was not correctly displayed in Right-To-Left languages. |
| Profile | Adding a number to contacts profile played a windows default error sound sound |
| Accessibility | Adding people to ongoing call did not indicate which persons are selected already. |
| Accessibility | Sending contacts windows did not indicate which contacts are selected. |
Known issues:
| Category | Description | Workaround |
| Skype Home and Facebook channel | Skype may display sometimes Internet Explorer “Script error” popups | None available |
| Skype Home and Facebook channel | Skype may display sometimes Internet Explorer slow script warning message | None available |
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