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name: Steve Gill
url: https://twitter.com/stevesgill

title: "Tools Release: November 6th, 2015" categories: news

tags: release tools

New versions of cordova tools are now live!

Release highlights:

Fixed issues with using Node 4 & 5 and npm 3.
Cordova will now auto convert old-style plugin IDs to new style plugin IDs when doing a cordova plugin add. This only happens if the old-style plugin ID exists in the registry-mapper, it will be auto converted to the new ID and fetched from npm instead.
Cordova CLI will now know if a newer version is available and will prompt users to update.
Some core utility methods from cordova-lib have been moved into a new module named cordova-common. cordova-common is shared among cordova-lib and cordova platforms.

To update your tools:

If you have cordova installed:
```
npm install -g cordova@latest
```
If you have plugman installed:
```
npm install -g plugman@latest
```

Changes include:

Platform updates

When adding these platforms to your project, the following versions are now used by default. These platform versions were released recently, and the tools' defaults were updated:

Cordova iOS ~3.9.0 (3.9.2)

cordova-lib

Updated cordova-app-hello-world to 3.10.0
CB-9935 Fix Cordova CLI silently failing with node.js v5
CB-9834 Introduce compat map for hook requires
CB-9902 Fix broken cordova run --list
CB-9800 Fixing contribute link.
CB-9736 Extra main activity generated when an android package name is specified
CB-9675 OSX App Icons are not properly copied.
CB-9758 Mobilespec crashes adding plugins on OS X
CB-9782 Update create/update signatures for PlatformApi polyfill
CB-9815 Engine name="cordova" should check tools version, not platforms.
CB-9824 removed plugin download counter code from lib
CB-9821 Fix EventEmitter incorrect trace level usages
CB-9813 Keep module-to-plugin mapping at hand.
CB-9598 Fixes broken require for FFOS plugin handler
Update serve to use express implementation of cordova-serve.
CB-9712 Fix CLI 5.3 breaking with node 3.3.3
CB-9598 Fixes broken require calls that aren't covered by tests
CB-9589 auto convert old plugin ids to new npm ids using registry-mapper
Pick ConfigParser changes from apache@0c3614e
CB-9743 Removes system frameworks handling from ConfigChanges
CB-9598 Cleans out code which has been moved to cordova-common
CB-9598 Switches LIB to use cordova-common
CB-9569 Support <access> and <allow-navigation> tag translation to Application Transport Security (ATS) Info.plist directives.
CB-8914 when project is renamed, remove userdata otherwise project is un-usable in Xcode
CB-9665 Support .xcassets for icons and splashscreens in the CLI
CB-9407 Fixes incorrect applying of plugin-provided config changes.
CB-8198 Unified console output logic for core platforms
CB-9408 Added support for windows-packageVersion on <widget>
CB-9588 Add support for <resource-file> on Windows
CB-8615 Improves plugman tests for Windows
CB-8615 Windows .winmd files with the same names are not added properly when using framework tag with target attribute
CB-9297 Parse Xcode project synchronously to avoid issues with node v4
CB-9617 Do not restore plugins after plugin removal.
CB-9631 Save plugin to config.xml only if installation succeeds
CB-9601 Fix <framework>.versions support on Windows after semver update
CB-9617 Fixes incorrect project state after adding/removing plugins
CB-9560 Issue using plugin restore for plugins with common dependencies
CB-8993 Plugin restore ignores search path
CB-9587 Check if browser platform added properly before creating parser.
CB-9604 Fix error adding browser platform with PlatformApi polyfill.
CB-9597 Initial Implementation of PlatformApiPoly
CB-9354 Fix array merging with complex items
CB-9556 Don't uninstall dependent plugin if it was installed as a top-level after

cordova-cli

CB-9903 update cordova-lib dependency to 5.4.0
CB-9800 Fixing contribute link.
CB-9792 Make CLI logging system interrupt process on an error` event
CB-9788 Add support of stderr/stdout split to CLI logger
CB-9784 Remove CLI logger levels prefixes
CB-8198 Unified console output logic for core platforms
CB-9523 Show out of date message for older cordova CLI
CB-9597 Updates cli to pass structured args to platform methods

cordova-js

CB-9800 Fixing contribute link.
CB-9370 Changes jsdom dependency to avoid package installation issues

plugman

CB-9800 Fixing contribute link.
CB-9903 Updated cordova-lib dependency to 5.4.0

Pinned Platform Versions for Cordova CLI 5.4.0

Cordova Amazon-FireOS: ~3.6.3
Cordova Android: ~4.1.0 (4.1.1)
Cordova BlackBerry10: ~3.8.0
Cordova Browser: ~4.0.0
Cordova FirefoxOS: ~3.6.3
Cordova iOS: ~3.9.0 (3.9.2)
Cordova OSX: ~4.0.0
Cordova Ubuntu: ~4.0.0
Cordova Windows: ~4.1.0
Cordova WebOS: ~3.7.0
Cordova WP8: ~3.8.1

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