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On Friday, Cordova 3.3 went live on npm. Woohoo!

This release brings with it initial support for Ubuntu Touch as well as Amazon Fire OS!

To upgrade: (replace android with the platform you want to update):

npm install -g cordova
cd my_project
cordova platform update android

For non-CLI projects or for pre-3.0 projects, refer to the upgrade guides.

What's new in Android

41 commits from 11 authors. Highlights include:

• CB-5481 Fix for Cordova trying to get config.xml from the wrong namespace
• CB-5487 Enable Remote Debugging when your Android app is debuggable.
• CB-5445 Adding onScrollChanged and the ScrollEvent object
• CB-5422 Don't require JAVA_HOME to be defined
• CB-5490 Add javadoc target to ant script
• CB-5471 Deprecated DroidGap class
• CB-5255 Prefer Google API targets over android-## targets when building.
• CB-5232 Change create script to use Cordova as a Library Project instead of a .jar
• CB-5302 Massive movement to get tests working again
• CB-4996 Fix paths with spaces while launching on emulator and device
• CB-5209 Cannot build Android app if project path contains spaces

What's new in iOS

• No significant Changes

What's new in Windows Phone 7 & 8

• CB-5360 Removed Compiler warnings
• CB-4538 Copy check_reqs scripts in create script
• CB-4103 Make config parameter checks case-insensitive WP7+WP8
• CB-2347 Add support for config.xml preference: 'fullscreen'
• CB-5203 Using XmlHTTPRequest.open on WP8 raises a TypeError
• CB-5435 Handle missing preferences gracefully ( config.xml )
• CB-5354 Networking becomes a required permission so that XHR can work
• disable Idle detection when debugging for wp7+wp8

Windows Phone 7 is now deprecated! Consider upgrading your projects to Windows Phone 8 as we will be dropping support completely in version 3.7.0 Read the retrospective here: http://www.risingj.com/archives/585

What's new in Windows 8

• CB-5040 cordova run windows8 has no effect

What's new in BlackBerry 10

• CB-5434 Windows: Always use USERPROFILE for home directory
• CB-5443 Windows: Handle installed 64 bit Java
• CB-5468 Improve config.xml encoding handling
• CB-5509 Remove ability to set default target (since device detection is now used)
• CB-5510 Update response codes for plugin success/fail
• CB-5413 Device detection - iterate through all 169.254.x networks
• CB-5317 Move signing warn logic to build/run scripts
• CB-5258 Use exit library for process.exit

What's new in FirefoxOS

• No significant Changes

What's new in Cordova-CLI

• CB-5347 Handle dangling platform symlink in cordova platform add
• Added deprecation notice about wp7
• Updated plugman version to 0.17.0
  • CB-5238 Adds support on iOS for <framework src="..." custom="true" />
• CB-5573 relies on stderr content and error codes to detect a problem with xcode installation.
• CB-4382 Pass cli arguments to project-level hooks
• CB-5362 blackberry parser: support local cordova-blackberry
• CB-5345 Add pre_package event for windows8 parser.

Plugin versions tested with this release

• cordova-plugin-battery-status: 0.2.5
• cordova-plugin-camera: 0.2.5
• cordova-plugin-console: 0.2.5
• cordova-plugin-contacts: 0.2.6
• cordova-plugin-device: 0.2.5
• cordova-plugin-device-motion: 0.2.4
• cordova-plugin-device-orientation: 0.3.3
• cordova-plugin-dialogs: 0.2.4
• cordova-plugin-file: 0.2.5
• cordova-plugin-file-transfer: 0.4.0
• cordova-plugin-geolocation: 0.3.4
• cordova-plugin-globalization: 0.2.4
• cordova-plugin-inappbrowser: 0.2.5
• cordova-plugin-media: 0.2.6
• cordova-plugin-media-capture: 0.2.5
• cordova-plugin-network-information: 0.2.5
• cordova-plugin-splashscreen: 0.2.5
• cordova-plugin-vibration: 0.3.5