Skype Preview 2.6 is out, but be warned:
You can see that it’s called a “preview”, which means it’s not even a beta yet. You won’t find it on any skype.com pages — it’s limited to the Developer Zone and the forum at this time. We only want those people who are comfortable with (possibly unstable) preview versions to download and use it — and report anything you find back to us.
The main change in this version, and the main reason for calling it a preview, is that we made some pretty significant changes in the audio handling part of Skype, which may make it unstable. So at this time the main goal of this preview is to test all the audio stuff. There are some other new or changed things that are also visible, but we’re focusing on the audio part for the time being. share.skype.com
More on the Preview here. I think it breaks new ground in offering a Skypecast tab:
And, a Skype extension for Firefox that 'turns phone numbers on websites into buttons which you can click to call from Skype':
I may not have spotted these, or versions of these, in earlier iterations of Skype, but I suspect they're new to 2.6.
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