Tools Released!

By: Steve Gill

25 Oct 2016

New updates of our tools are now available!

Release Highlights

Updated Platforms CB-12039: updated pinned Android to 6.0.0 and iOS to 4.3.0. Read the Android@6.0.0 release blog and the iOS@4.3.0 release blog.
Deprecation CB-11976: Add deprecated node version warning for 0.x. Lean more about our node deprecation timeline.
Deprecation CB-11979: added deprecation warning for installing plugins via subdirectories
Security CB-12017: Updated npm dependencies due to security vulnerabilities.
New Feature CB-11908: Add edit-config support to config.xml. edit-config works the same way now in plugin.xml as well as config.xml. Read about it at http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/6.x/plugin_ref/spec.html#edit-config
New Feature CB-3785: add support for EventListener interface to Channel.prototype.subscribe
New Module CB-11607: split out cordova-create from cordova-lib. Published cordova-create to npm.

To update your cordova CLI:

npm install -g cordova@latest

Please report any issues you find at issues.cordova.io!

Changes include:

cordova-lib

CB-12039: updated pinned Android to 6.0.0 and iOS to 4.3.0
CB-11979: added deprecation warning for installing plugins via subdirectories
CB-11730: Modify condition of if clause to avoid similar project name with plugin name
CB-11985: Check if cached platform/plugin exists before npm cache
CB-11951: CB-11967: Respect preference default values when installling plugins
CB-11771: Deep symlink directories to target project instead of linking the directory itself
CB-11908: Handle edit-config in config.xml on prepare
Add github pull request template
CB-8320: We look for a build.gradle to make sure it's Android, not an AndroidManifest, because it moved
CB-11811: Moved iOS platform specific tests to platform.spec.ios.js, added test-ios npm run script.
CB-11811: disable CocoaPods e2e test temporarily since it is platform specific and requires cocoapods to be installed.
updated save.spec.js to use latest android and newer fb plugin
CB-11607: breakout cordova-create from cordova-lib
CB-9825: framework tag spec parsing
CB-11698: Fix plugin installation when restoring platform
CB-11679: Speed up save/restore tests
CB-11205: Respect saved variables when installing plugin
CB-11589: Fix missing plugin files after restore

CB-12017: updated dependencies in package.json
CB-3785: add support for EventListener interface to Channel.prototype.subscribe
Add github pull request template
CB-11928: removed jshint from grunt.registerTask because it doesn't work with node6
CB-9967: deleted legacy platform specific files
CB-11522: [windows] Make cordova-js handle unknown type
SECURITY ISSUE: Resolve minimatch DDOS issue.
CB-11522: Make utils.clone handle properties gracefully