• Allow missing color, style or image properties for a given skin.
• Fixes warnings about unused imports and unnecessary casts.
• Clarify the use of a field to Eclipse on Mac OS X with Java 5.
• Fix some javadoc warnings, typos and 80 lines cut.
• Added the possibility to have the skin main directory in the skin zip.
• Patch provided by Adam Netocny, icluding some skin jar builder enhancements + javadocs.
• Support for video and photo previews in chat window provided by Purvesh Sahoo as part of its GSoC project.

Other recent changes in earlier versions:

• Changes the hangup sound to a more subtle one.

• Don't block UI thread when setting avatar.

• Fixes a "unmappable character for encoding UTF8" warning.
• Fixes a NullPointerException upon registering/logging into a SIP account.

• Forgot to change Windows installer name to differentiate x86 and x64.

• Integrate choosing and setting avatar image for protocols (currently only for msn and jabber). This work is done as part of Google Summer of Code 2009 by Shashank Tyagi and his mentor Damien Roth.
• Add Windows x64 installer support.
• Skin implementation bases provided by Adam Netočný (work in progress).

• Show protocol specific error messages in the chat window.

• Applies minor changes (e.g. code formatting, closing InputStreams) discovered while briefly looking at issue #854: Avatar handling is flawed.

• Added a sound, played on hang up.

• Enhances the exception logging of the PortAudio CaptureDevice (mostly because Manager.createDataSource doesn't rethrow the original exception but wraps it and thus doesn't report the stack trace of the actual problem).

• Removes the etched borders with titles from the Security > Call tab in Tools > Options in order to simplify its overall look a tiny bit.

• Fixes the issue described by Kertesz Laszlo on the dev mailing list in the thread "Sip Communicator does not close sound devices after call finish (PulseAudio)".
• Displays the descriptions of the notification events in the Events page of Tools > Options... with spaces so that they look less geeky.

• Add latest patch from Grigorii Balutsel for Xcap support, fix proper contact peristent data.
• Fixing build.
• Jabber ignore contacts with subscription none, those are contacts not added by us in roster(its sometimes our own contact).

• Fix editable error message in call window.
• New add account icon. Provided by Dimitar Bozhinov.

• New configurations prepared for the arrive of ice and stun support.

• Fix issues with chatroom dialog: Proper handling disabled accounts and stored chatrooms. Proper searching for chatroom wrapper if the same chat room exists for different providers. Close window when leaving chat room(pressing leave button). Fix default state of ok button in the dialog, and further changes of this state.

• Fix when removing jabber contacts and operation fails inform user and stop any further actions.

• Reverts the touch screen changes, which are moved to the touchgui now.

• Fix - show proper status in UI for SIP Registerless accounts.

• Fix a problem when registering with sip TCP and creation of via and contact headers. Add latest patch from Grigorii Balutsel for Xcap, fixes NPE on wrong server URI.

• Commit from translate.sip-communicator.org by user emcho.: 885 of 885 messages translated (0 fuzzy).
• Fix wrong cseq incrementation in sip protocol with message and typing info. Remove some redundant resource strings.