Finally Skype 1.4 is out of beta and has been released with final version. The two big new features are call forwarding, and a “Birthday Alert” service that notifies you when anyone in your Contact list has a birthday, besides the tons of bug fixes … check release announcement. GUI is now much smoother and cleaner. According to Skype the new release has the same engine under the hood that exists in Skype 2.6+ for Mac and Skype 3.2+ for Windows, i.e Skype 1.4 for Linux has the same great audio quality and solid Skype technology. Now looking forward for video support, including the support for UVC driver, which my 1Mpx webcam from Logitech requires.

The new version, codenamed Skype Panacea includes:

• New option in Sound Devices lets you enable/disable automatic mixer adjustment
• Clickable links in chat topics
• Chat toolbar with “add people,” “send file(s),” “history,” and “leave chat” buttons
• Drag-and-drop files to chat input boxes to send files
• Drag-and-drop users from contact list into chat box to send contacts
• File transfer menu

Packages are available for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Xandros, OpenSuse, Mepis, and Mandriva Linux distributions.

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