" Thanks to all of you who continue giving us valuable feedback. We have another great update for you. Those are some of many new features and improvements coming with Skype for Linux Alpha 1.12 that we are releasing today: Improved authentication process (Switch to Microsoft Account) Enabled Hostless group calling - the group call can now continue when host leaves Bugfixes and performance improvements "
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/2865