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name: Mark Koudritsky
url: https://github.com/kamrik

title: "Tools Release: July 10, 2014" categories: news

tags: release tools

New versions of plugman, cordova and cordova-lib are now live!

• plugman@0.22.4
• cordova@3.5.0-0.2.6
• cordova-lib@0.21.6

To update your tools:

npm install -g cordova
npm install -g plugman

Most notable changes are:

• Support for splash screens
• Drop wp7 as platform
• An experimental feature that allows to persist the currently added plugins to config.xml. Try it out as:
  • cordova save plugins --experimental
  • and later when you check out the project without a plugins folder:
  • cordova restore plugins --experimental
  • Read Gorkem Ercan's post for details.
• We are experimenting with using browserify to package our cordova.js build artifact. This is an internal change to our tooling, and is currently still off-by-default. We would appreciate feedback since we hope to switch to on-by-default in a future release. Try it using plugman as:
  • plugman (un)install --browserify --project [PROJECT] --plugin [PLUGIN] --platform [ios|android]

Other changes include:

cordova

• CB-6728 Support chip architecture flag --archs
• CB-6740 amazon-fireos Clean up error reporting when AmazonWebView SDK not found
• CB-6943 Path can include the : if it is absolute, only test for http. Added tests
• Show full stack for CordovaError in verbose mode
• CB-6024 Use nopt instead of optimist in cli
• Add --usenpm flag to activate npm based lazy_load
• CB-6767 Allow cordova to be replaceable in error messages
• Add --noregistry flag for disabling plugin lookup in the registry

cordova-lib

• CB-3571, CB-2606 support for splashscreens
• Fix plugin check error, when plugin dependency with specific version is given
• CB-6709 Do not create merges/ folder when adding a platform
• CB-6140 Don't allow deletion of platform dependencies
• CB-6698 Fix 'android update lib-project' to work with paths containing spaces
• CB-6973 Run JSHint on all code in src/ via npm test
• CB-6542 Delay creating project until there's some chance that it will succeed
• folder_contents() now ignores .svn folders
• CB-6970 Share win project files manipulation code between cordova and plugman
• CB-6954 Share events.js between cordova and plugman
• CB-6698 Automatically copy sub-libraries to project's directory
• CB-6942 Describe running hooks only in verbose mode.
• CB-6512 Allow cordova platform add /path/to/platform/files
• CB-6895 Add more config properties into manifest
• Allow cordova platform add platform@version
• Add util func for chaining promises
• removing doWrap from prepare
• adding prepare-browserify
• adding and freezing cordova-js
• CB-6879 config parser breakout into a cordova level module
• CB-6698 Resolve android <framework> relative to plugin_dir when custom=true
• Fix tests on node 0.11.x
• CB-6024 Accept cli vars as part of opts param
• Refer properties-parser package from NPM.
• CB-6859 Removed all wp7 references, tests still passing
• Extract AndroidProject class into a separate .js file
• CB-6698 Support library references for Android via the framework tag
• CB-6854 Strip BOM when adding cordova.define() to js-modules
• Use PluginInfo in plugman/install.js
• CB-6772 Provide a default for AndroidLaunchMode
• CB-6711 Use parseProjectFile when working with XCode projects.
• Start using PluginInfo object in plugman/install.js
• CB-6709 Remove merges/ folder for default apps
• Add --shrinkwrap flag to save plugin versions
• Initial implementation for saving plugin list in config.xml and restoring from it
• CB-6668 Use <description> for cordova plugin ls when <name> is missing.
• Add --noregistry flag for disabling plugin lookup in the registry
• Remove --force from default npm settings for plugin registry
• CB-7100 Use npm for downloading plugins and later platforms
• CB-6691 Change some instances of Error() to CordovaError()