Download Skype for Mac 2.8.0.851

Last Wednesday, a new stable version of the Mac OS X client of the VoIP program Skype was released with version number 2.8.0.851. The download is 43MB in size, but this is a Universal Binary. In version 2.8, some interesting new features have been added to the program, including Skype Access and desktop sharing. In addition, the quality of both the sound and the image has been improved and a number of bugs have been fixed. More information about the changes in version 2.8 can be found in this blog post are being found. Below are the issues that have been fixed in this release:

Skype Access

• Platform specific: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard – Skype Access was not working

Calling

• Skype occasionally crashed when the host of a conference call would hang up on one participants during the call
• Platform specific: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard – Users were unable to call phone numbers via their Mac Addressbook

instant messaging

• Platform specific: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard- Some animated emotions were not displayed correctly

Profile

• Skype crashed due to invalid avatars (occurred seldom)

miscellaneous

• Users some times experienced an “Unable to mount database” error message when launching Skype.
• Skype crashed when a user quit after opening an authorization missed event
• Platform specific: OS X 10.3 Panther – Occasionally Skype crashed right after an account was created