The following plugins were updated today:
- cordova-plugin-battery-status@2.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-camera@4.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-contacts@3.0.1
 - cordova-plugin-device@2.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-dialogs@2.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-file@6.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-geolocation@4.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-globalization@1.0.9
 - cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@2.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-media@5.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-media-capture@3.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-network-information@2.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-splashscreen@5.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-statusbar@2.4.0
 - cordova-plugin-screen-orientation@3.0.0
 - cordova-plugin-vibration@3.0.0
 
In the recent cordova@8 tools release, we dropped support for deprecated platforms (Ubuntu, BlackBerry10, Windows Phone 8, FirefoxOS). The main focus of this plugins release was to drop support for those platforms as well. That is why many of the plugins have had major version increases. 
cordova-plugin-contacts and cordova-plugin-globalization have officially been deprecated. Read about our decision to deprecate cordova-plugin-contacts at https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/11/27/Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.html. For cordova-plugin-globalization, we have written a migration guide over to the built-in ECMA Internationalization API at https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/11/20/migrate-from-cordova-globalization-plugin.html.
You can update any plugin by removing it, and then re-adding it.
E.g. To update your camera plugin:
cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-camera
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-camera@latest
Changes include:
cordova-plugin-battery-status@2.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 
cordova-plugin-camera@4.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 
cordova-plugin-contacts@3.0.1
- CB-13062: Deprecated this plugin. Added notice to 
README.md 
cordova-plugin-device@2.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 
cordova-plugin-dialogs@2.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 - CB-13555 (ios) Present notification view controller by 
InAppBrowserview controller 
cordova-plugin-file@6.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 
cordova-plugin-geolocation@4.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 
cordova-plugin-globalization@1.0.9
- Deprecated this plugin. Read our migration guide at https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/11/20/migrate-from-cordova-globalization-plugin.html
 - Update moment.js to version 
2.19.1 
cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@2.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 
cordova-plugin-media@5.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 
cordova-plugin-media-capture@3.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 
cordova-plugin-network-information@2.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 
cordova-plugin-splashscreen@5.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 
cordova-plugin-statusbar@2.4.0
- CB-13623 (iOS): Remove iOS 6-7 code
 
cordova-plugin-screen-orientation@3.0.0
- CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
 - CB-13405 (ios) undo lock when resetting
 - CB-13405 (ios) Screen unlock bug fix
 
cordova-plugin-vibration@3.0.0
