Tools Release: Jan 31, 2014

By: Andrew Grieve

31 Jan 2014

It's been a long time since our last tools release, but it's certainly no sign of stagnation. Today's release is action packed!

To update your tools:

npm update -g cordova
npm update -g plugman

This release brings with it a plethora of bug fixes as well as some new features! Notably:

config.xml now lives at the project root by default (instead of within www/)
hooks now lives at the project root by default (instead of within .cordova)
Specify a www/ to use when creating a new project with --link-to or --copy-from
When installing by plugin ID, tell cordova and plugman to search for plugins locally using --searchpath

Full list of release notes:

cordova

CB-5006 Add --searchpath to cordova plugin add so that installing by ID will search local paths before hitting the registry.
CB-4153 Add --copy-from & --link-to to cordova create.
CB-5687 Make cordova commands work when CWD is inside of a symlink'ed www/
CB-4910 Default config.xml to the root instead of within www/
CB-5764 Move hooks/ to top-level instead of under .cordova
CB-5763 Don't create .cordova/ by default
CB-4871 Reduced package size significantly.
CB-4976 Don't add cache entries for local platforms.
CB-5777 Fix cordova platform update not updating cordova.js.
CB-5728 Files in merges must remain intact when removing platform.
CB-5493 lazy_load now downloads to a temp dir and then moves.
CB-5782 Hide stack trace for explicitly handled error conditions
CB-5590 Have config.xml version map to CFBundleShortVersionString instead of CFBundleVersion
CB-5913 Fail more gracefully on Windows when symlinks fail.
Fix isWindows check in util.js to support win64
CB-5907 Make cordova update get version from platform's version script
CB-3612 Don't pass --device to "run" command by default.
CB-5299 Cache pbxproj to avoid re-parsing it for each plugin.
CB-5813 Fix missing quotes on update and ls commands
CB-5808 Fix lazy_load stripping off windows drive letters
Expose util.isCordova as cordova.findProjectRoot()
Allow lazy_load libs to work without an id and version for local paths.

CB-5770 Plugman prepare script content wrapping no longer allows ending parens/braces to be commented out from end of line comment
CB-4871 Reduced package size significantly
CB-5720 Allow <resource-file> on Android
CB-5006 Add --searchpath option for local plugin search path
CB-5701 Reference custom frameworks using relative paths
CB-5495, CB-5568 Fix config.xml path for iOS
CB-5804 Added repo & issue information into plugman publish