New Features

• 10-way group video calling
• Skype Home experience
• New contact search and add experience
• Offline instant messaging support
• Improved experience during network-compromised calls
• Automatic call recovery
• Post call experience
• General User Interface refresh

Changes:

• Removed post call experience
• Added an option to disable avatar pictures in contact list.

Fixed issues:

• Accessibility in Call Phones tab was not properly supported.
• Accessibility was not fully supported in Call View.
• It was not possible to accept or reject a contact request via keyboard.
• Labels in Add people widget were not visible to Jaws.
• When the user redialed within 10 seconds the audio was sometimes silent.
• During Skype update it was impossible to change language for Skype browser plugin.
• Skype browser plugin was wrongly interpreting US vanity numbers that exeed 11 digits.
• Sometimes the browser plugin dropdown menu was shown in the wrong place on the screen.
• Call Phones tab showed wrong information about subscriptions when user did not have reccurring payments enabled.
• Call to invalid number message was not cleared.
• Calling rates under subscriptions were sometimes not correctly shown.
• Header area in call phones tab sometimes showed some messages in text format instead of graphical.
• Numberpad on call phones was not displayed properly on low screen resolutions.
• Sometimes the rates lookup drop down list appeared in wrong place when using Skype in compact mode.
• Call Quality Indicator did not warn user if he mutes microphone in Windows settings.
• Call Quality Indicator stated unknown connection speed.
• Call restablishment message will remain on a call which appears to be fine, though available bandwidth is very low.
• The call quality indicator sometimes incorrectly reported medium quality when in fact the video call was in high definition.
• Call transfer to a phone number not in contact list did not work.
• Video was not transmitted after call transfer.
• Occasionally the call view had white boxes instead of texts.
• In rare occasions Skype crashed after changing microphone.
• Creating a Skype Out contact from recently dialled numbers was malfunctioning.
• There were some text formatting errors in Recents list.
• Avatar picture was not displayed in Public profile view.
• Sometimes, Add contacts buttons text was only partially visible.
• User search, based on e-mail and phone number, did not display partial results if full matches were present.
• On rare cases file receiver saw a erroneous message ‘The file isn’t available’.
• Skype sometimes stopped responding when accepting File Transfer in group conversation.
• Message box that appears so users can activate a free trial remained even after trial is activated.
• Often when adding a third participant to a video call the host was not notified about the need to activate a free trail in order to use group video calling.
• Placing a group video call with no free trial appears to other participants as missed conversation.
• Video could sometimes freeze for some participants on Group video calls.
• There was no support for languages read right to left in profile view.
• Skype opened in focus if Skype was set to autostart.
• Skype sometimes crashed when switching Windows user under Windows 7.
• Skype was starting as maximized during autostart process.
• When opening main menu Skype asked user to install Flash player if user did not have it previously installed.
• During screen sharing, the shared area may be partially cropped when resizing it.
• Netbooks with Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Graphics Chipset and Windows 7 sometimes had problems when receiving large screen sharing resolutions beyond 1322 × 823.
• Receiving a large resolution screen share could have artefacts on screen.
• When receiving screen sharing from Skype for Mac version 2.8, sometimes the screen does not load on the 5.0 side.
• The Skype Access connection display did not pop-up correctly when trying to connect to supported hotspot after starting Skype up.
• In some cases, avatar pictures were missing from Skype Home feed.
• Occasionally mood message update displays may be disrupted when the network connection is momentarily lost.
• Skype Home is not scaling very well to small and big window
• Sometimes there was a connection error when trying to open account panel from client alert in Skype Home.
• Un-sent mood message updates within Skype Home will not be saved when navigating away from Skype Home.
• Clicking on the webcamera settings may cause Skype to crash.
• In rare cases users video may not start correctly when using Logitech webcam pro 9000.
• In rare cases, video may not be received by the other party even if the local preview is working correctly
• Skype crashed if user quit Skype during an active call.
• Skype may not work properly with virtual cameras
• Switching between USB camera and HP Virtual webcam locks the camera
• The call receiver may not see HQ logo on their side during HQ call
• The receiver may not see HQ logo in the local preview while the receiver sees the logo on his side.
• The Skype video snapshots feature is not working on Windows XP SP3.
• This version of Skype (5.0) has increased CPU usage which may effect video quality on some computers.
• Under some circumstances upon ending a Skype Video call the webcam can still be capturing video even though it is no-longer in use.
• Video call picture quality was sometimes lower than expected in good conditions.
• Video calls may not work with virtual machines.
• Video calls on a secondary display causes higher CPU load compared to usage on the primary display.
• Video may stop if you lock and unlock your computer while on a call
• Video might freeze in calls with H.264 devices.
• DailyMotion videos which have been added to a mood message are not being displayed to other contacts.
• Calls go to Voicemail for offline users even if they have disabled it from Options.
• Message that display’s “Item has been deleted from conversation history.” sometimes appeared after sending Voicemail. Voicemail itself will be sent without problems.