What's new in Skyperious 5.5
Jul 18, 2023
- Fix Bing-bot not being synced properly (issue #117)
- Fix importing latest Skype export archives (issue #119)
- Add config option to disable automatic update checks and downloads
- Upgrade all dependency libraries in compiled binaries
New in Skyperious 5.4.1 (Jan 3, 2023)
- Fix v5.4 release binaries containing outdated code
- Fix --version flag being ignored
New in Skyperious 5.4 (Dec 11, 2022)
- Add chat and contact counts to chats and contacts lists
- Add database account as one entry among contacts in contacts-tab
- Add links to contacts page in chat statistics
- Add chat image to chat statistics
- Add option to delete contact from database
- Add contacts TXT export
- Add contacts export to command-line interface
- Add configuration flag to cache shared media on disk (issue #112)
- Add configuration flag to auto-open exported files
- Add 1:1 and group chat message counts to contact details
- Add chat history text size selection to chat toolbar and context menu
- Add context menu popup to contact list right-click
- Add support for exporting SQL query results as INSERT statements
- Add support for F2 and Ctrl-F key shortcuts in chats and contacts lists
- Add "Export chats" button to contacts tab
- Add context menu popups to all HTML controls
- Expose chats and contacts lists context menu options under actions button
- Add options to sync specific items in chats and contacts lists from live
- List all chats a contact is participant in, including empty chats
- Convert linefeeds in profile fields to line break tags in contacts HTML export
- Retain sort direction on changing sort column in contacts HTML export
- Export contact list by current applied filter
- Order file types in save dialog by label
- Skip trying to download old shared content guaranteed to be unavailable
- Fix parsing quoted media messages
- Fix chat count on initial and info page not matching count in chat list
- Fix error on syncing a contact no longer available online
- Fix escaping quotes in SQL export
- Fix compiled exe and pythonw auto-closing window immediately on --help
New in Skyperious 5.3 (Jul 26, 2022)
- Add build file for Snap
- Add command-line flag --config-file
- Add command-line search flags --reverse --limit --offset
- Tweak icon borders
- Fix command-line search ignoring --type flag
- Fix command-line search output for chats, contacts, and tables
- Fix error on using system colours with transparency
- Fix errors on Ubuntu 22 (issue #111)
New in Skyperious 5.2 (Jun 17, 2022)
- Fix error on displaying search results with Unicode emoticons (issue #108)
- Fix error on importing from JSON (issue #110)
New in Skyperious 5.1 (May 1, 2022)
- Added contacts HTML export
- Refresh contacts list during and after live sync
- Fixed live sync updating messages needlessly in Python3
- Fixed error on filtering current chat by text (issue #107)
New in Skyperious 5.0 (Apr 4, 2022)
- Added contacts-tab
- Full Python2 / Python3 compatibility
- Moved to src-layout
- Ensure DOS linefeeds in Windows
- Fixed HTML exports not showing page icon
- Fixed error on opening chat with linefeeds in participant name (issue #103)
- Ensure database has required tables and fields before starting live sync (issue #106)
New in Skyperious 4.8.1 (Sep 8, 2021)
- Fixed audio/video messages being imported from live as simple file transfers (issue #102)
New in Skyperious 4.8 (Aug 1, 2021)
- Added shared files download for HTML export with subfolder
- Fixed chats not being shown on importing Skype export (issue #100)
- Fixed export on Linux not using selected format (issue #101)
- Fixed certain save-dialog overwrite prompts not working on Linux
- Fixed feedback screenshot not updating on Linux
- Fixed help texts in advanced options dialog showing ampersands as accelerators
- Show selection of chats to sync on online-page in case-insensitive order
- Upgraded ijson from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4
- Upgraded skpy from 0.10.2 to 0.10.4
- Upgraded XlsxWriter from 1.3.7 to 1.4.5
New in Skyperious 4.7 (Mar 16, 2021)
- Added command-line flag --no-terminal (issue #97)
- Improved detetcing existing messages during online sync
- Improved querying Skype online service for more messages to sync (issue #93)
- Fixed data grid export ignoring current filter
- Fixed parsing parts of HTML entities into emoticons
- Fixed command-line create overwriting existing file, and not creating file if password not given
New in Skyperious 4.6 (Mar 5, 2021)
- update existing contact information in database on live sync
- added flag to not update contact information in database from live
- sync older chats from live not just recent ones (issue #93)
- added flag to not sync older chats from live
- show <pre>-tag content in chat reader
- show @-taggings in chat reader and style them bold in reader and HTML
- ask for confirmation when exporting HTML with media in subfolder, but login unavailable for downloading media (issue #93)
- fixed error on creating chat date links during the month of March
- fixed "Go to previous [period]" not working in chat history if history starts with previous period
- fixed merge not showing correct diff in individual chats view
- fixed duplicates in syncing bot contacts and messages from live (issue #93)
- fixed not retaining the order of command-line FILE arguments (issue #93)
- fixed displaying shared media with duplicate filenames in HTML export with subfolder (issue #93)
- add detected media type extension to shared media exported in HTML if lacking one (issue #93)
New in Skyperious 4.5 (Feb 12, 2021)
- Added option to change Skype online account username
- Added option to delete chats from the database
- Improved detection of duplicate messages on merging
- Fixed new contacts not being inserted on merge
- Fixed inserting duplicate chats on command-line merge with 2+ databases
New in Skyperious 4.3.1 (Oct 4, 2020)
- Fixed export errors (issue #86)
New in Skyperious 4.3 (Sep 22, 2020)
- Added dark mode toggle to HTML export (issue #81)
- Added support for single-user install
New in Skyperious 4.2 (Aug 29, 2020)
- added option to create a blank Skype database
- added option to create a database from Skype export
- added option to export HTML with shared images in subfolder
- added chat history timeline for time period quick-selection
- added option to go to next/previous message from author in chat history
- added option to go to next/previous day/week/month in chat history
- added option to filter chat history by day/week/month/year of clicked message
- added option to scroll back more messages in chat history
- added calendar popup to chat time period filter
- import account/contact gender, homepage and e-mails from live sync
- improved message parsing from Skype live and export
- upgraded skpy from 0.9.1 to 0.10
- dropped dateutil dependency
- dropped Vagrant support
New in Skyperious 4.1 (Aug 4, 2020)
- added option to merge from Skype chat history export
- added option to rename chats and contacts
- added option to delete database
- use OS- and user-specific config and data directories where necessary
- improved error handling and reporting
New in Skyperious 4.0.1 (Jul 30, 2020)
- Fixed live sync failing on unexpected errors
New in Skyperious 4.0 (Jul 30, 2020)
- Added support for syncing chat history from Skype online service
- Added 400+ more emoticon images
- Added date range option to chat export
- Restored shared image download functionality
- Restored support functionality
- Made database list sortable and filterable, added date and size columns
- Increased default font size for chat history, made it configurable
- Updated emoticon parsing
- Removed obsolescence notice
New in Skyperious 3.6 (Jul 6, 2020)
- marked program as obsolete
- dropped support functionality
- dropped contacts search and import functionality as unavailable
- dropped shared image download functionality as unavailable
- upgraded wxPython to v4
New in Skyperious 3.5 (Feb 15, 2016)
- added emoticons to chat statistics
- added shared image download for HTML export
- added chat and author filters to command-line export
- applying or resetting message filter will scroll to last selection
- added support for copying selected list items to clipboard
- stopped caching messages on export to avoid memory shortage
- fixed parsing messages with deeply nested HTML (issue #38)
- fixed chat date range component error when switching to empty chat
- fixed a potential error with unexpected data in quoted messages
- fixed a potential error message on filtering chat messages
- made database comparison report window retain scroll position at the bottom
- increased size of message search bar button image
- upgraded Python from 2.7.9 to 2.7.10
- upgraded dateutil from 2.4.1 to 2.4.2
- upgraded Pillow from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1
- upgraded SQLite from 3.6.21 to 3.8.10.2
- upgraded XlsxWriter from 0.6.7 to 0.7.3
- upgraded Nullsoft Scriptable Install System from 3.0a2 to 3.0b2
New in Skyperious 3.4 (Apr 16, 2015)
- added links to earliest messages in chat statistics histogram sectors
- fixed showing wrong author in transfer statistics for certain messages
- fixed a parsing issue with certain Skype messages
- fixed HTML output for photo/video sharing messages
- fixed getting encoding errors on Excel export
- fixed potential error on chat date histogram analysis
- fixed showing database statistics on information page
- use Skype account timezone setting for message timestamps
- added message links to file transfers in chat statistics
- added table links to result sections in searching over tables
- optimized memory usage in chat word-cloud analysis
- added opened file name to application title
- avoid "Broken pipe" errors if command-line output is piped and interrupted
- fixed error on opening databases with invalid SkypeOut values in account
- fixed possible invalid HTML in export
- command-line output encoded on all platforms, to avoid Unicode errors
- avoid stack trace on command-line keyboard interrupt
- stop worker threads instead of using daemons, to avoid zombie messages in CLI
- command-line progress bar clears previously printed bar text
- small UI tweaks
- added __main__.py: pip-installed Skyperious can run as `python -m skyperious`
- upgraded Pillow from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0
New in Skyperious 3.3 (Apr 16, 2015)
- added per-contact word clouds to chat statistics
- added 24h and date activity histograms to chat statistics
- added support for bold, italic and strike-through formatting in Skype 7
- fixed duplicate transfer rows in consecutive merges
- added start-end editboxes for chat date filter
- made contact avatar images in HTML export easily saveable
- made database comparison progress-bar advance by message count instead of chat count
- fixed creating duplicates in merge where contact names differ in databases
- fixed parsing errors for certain Skype messages
- fixed case-sensitive name sorting in chat statistics
- fixed using Unicode command-line arguments
- fixed possible wx error for shortcut keys when lots of windows open
- changed skypename text colour in chat Excel export from transparent to gray
- number of UI tweaks and fixes
- made Pillow/PIL an optional requirement for both GUI and command-line
- made pyparsing optional
- added setup.py script
- upgraded Python from 2.7.6 to 2.7.9
- upgraded wxPython from 3.0.0 to 3.0.2
- upgraded dateutil from 2.2 to 2.4.1
- upgraded Pillow from 2.3.0 to 2.7.0
- upgraded pyparsing from 2.0.1 to 2.0.3
- upgraded XlsxWriter from 0.5.3 to 0.6.7
New in Skyperious 3.2 (Apr 16, 2015)
- added menu item to configure advanced options
- added refresh button to database tables page
- made chat and database export filenames configuration-based
- fixed highlighting links in search results
- fixed filename encoding problems under Linux with no locale (issue #18)
- fixed keeping export filename length in filesystem limit (issue #20)
- added scroll support to decrease required minimum window size (issue #21)
- added 24x24 icon for Linux system tray (issue #21)
- fixed database opening crash in PLD Linux (issue #23)
- fixed search results falsely highlighting negated query words
- fixed errors on searching over tables in non-Skype databases
- made entire application window a target for dragged-dropped files
- update notification no longer shown when program minimized to tray
- "Execute SQL" button in SQL window uses selected text, if any
- word cloud text not longer includes wholly numeric words
- dropped "Total time spent in calls" from chat statistics as duplicating "Calls"
- dropped alert messages on opening a non-Skype database
- dropped alert messages on failing to open an export file
- auto-added console history no longer saved on exit
New in Skyperious 3.1 (Apr 16, 2015)
- fixed a bug in showing merge results
- file arguments opened on start-up are added to database list
- better Unicode support in command line interface
- fixed command line progress bar display under Linux
New in Skyperious 3.0 (Apr 16, 2015)
- added tray quick-search popup
- added command-line interface, not requiring wxPython
- database comparison now works in one direction
- made database comparison run significantly faster
- started using system theme colours
- added option to merge only selected chats
- added date selection links and initial limit to chat comparison view
- added export option to chat comparison view
- added filters to all chat and contact lists
- added automatic update check option
- added drag-drop reordering to database list
- enlarged feedback screenshot from window to full screen
- avatars in export now PNG instead of JPG
- better malformed database handling
- number of minor bugfixes and UI changes
- added hotkeys Ctrl-F4 and Ctrl-W for closing a tab
- changed console hotkey from Ctrl-W to Ctrl-E
- moved packaging scripts to public repository
- upgraded Python from 2.7.5 to 2.7.6
- upgraded wxPython from 2.9.5 to 3.0.0
- upgraded XlsxWriter from 0.4.8 to 0.5.2
- upgraded dateutil from 1.5 to 2.2
- upgraded NSIS from 2.4.6 to 3.0a2
- made pyparsing a required library and dropped it from source
New in Skyperious 2.3 (Apr 16, 2015)
- Added Excel export
- Added option to export multiple chats to a single Excel workbook
- Added database corruption detection and recovery
- Added more statistics to database information page
- Fixed exporting from MSN Live accounts
- Fixed handling file transfer messages with unsupported filenames
- Fixed concurrency errors during merging
- Improved emoticon parsing
- Improved Linux compatibility
- A number of minor bugfixes and UI changes
- Increased error reporting
- Upgraded wxPython from 2.9.4 to 2.9.5
- Upgraded PyInstaller from 2.0 to 2.1
- Dropped BeautifulSoup dependency
New in Skyperious 2.2 (Apr 16, 2015)
- Fixed errors in exporting larger chats as HTML
- Fixed an error in exporting selected database chats
- Improved parsing exotic emoticons
- Made SQL editor auto-complete drop-down disappear on deleting text
- Tweak to disable dragging in database list
- Improved error reporting on export
New in Skyperious 2.1.2 (Apr 16, 2015)
- Fixed bugs on error reporting
- Fixed an annoyance with SQL window auto-complete popup remaining on top of other windows
- Minor UI tweaks
New in Skyperious 2.1.1 (Apr 16, 2015)
- Fixed a bug in merging large chats
New in Skyperious 2.1 (Apr 16, 2015)
- Support for exporting and comparing very large chats
- Fixed errors on selecting chat participants in chat history
- Fixed errors for chats with empty names
- Fixed data grids freezing if moving mouse over certain BLOB fields
- Added partner skypename to chat lists' People column for 1:1 chats
- Started remembering last active page in database tabs
- Improved exporting binary data as SQL from database tables
- Improved wxMac compatibility