• Simplified contacts access: Now the Skype app uses the OS contacts permission future rather than having to be turned on in Skype itself. This menas that you can now enable or disable Skype’s access to your contacts from the settings app.
• Search your Skype chats for specific messages. This does not apply to SMS messages sync’d via a compatible Windows phone.
• Support for Skype SMS, meaning that you can now send SMSes via Skype’s traditional paid SMS service #(although you cannot receive replies via this method) as well as athrough SMS relay.
• New keyboard shortcuts to make messaging easier – though I’m not entirely sure what Skype supports as there is no exhaustive list of shortcuts anywhere.
• Switch your microphone, camera or transfer to a new device while making a Skype call.
• New group video calling interface.