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Apache Cordova 3.4.0
By: Steve Gill
20 Feb 2014

We are happy to announce that Cordova 3.4 has been released!

This release has various bug fixes for all of our supported platforms.

Our friends at Mozilla have put together a blog post about getting started with Cordova Firefox OS. Check it out at https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/02/building-cordova-apps-for-firefox-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

Android: 43 commits from 10 authors. Highlights include:

  • Removing addJavascriptInterface support from all Android versions lower than 4.2 due to security vulnerability
  • CB-5917 Add a loadUrlIntoView overload that doesn't recreate plugins.
  • CB-5889 Make update script find project name instead of using "null" for CordovaLib
  • CB-5889 Add a message in the update script about needing to import CordovaLib when using an IDE.
  • CB-5793 Don't clean before build and change output directory to ant-build to avoid conflicts with Eclipse.
  • CB-5803 Fix cordova/emulate on Windows.
  • CB-5801 exec->spawn in build to make sure compile errors are shown.
  • CB-5799 Update version of OkHTTP to 1.3
  • CB-4910 Update CLI project template to point to config.xml at the root now that it isn't in www/ by default.
  • CB-5504 Adding onDestroy to app plugin to deregister telephonyReceiver
  • CB-5715 Add Eclipse .project file to create template. For CLI projects, it adds refs for root www/ & config.xml and hides platform versions
  • CB-5447 Removed android:debuggable=“true” from project template.
  • CB-5714 Fix of android build when too big output stops build with error due to buffer overflow.
  • CB-5592 Set MIME type for openExternal when scheme is file:

What's new in iOS

  • CB-5794 iOS build script: 1. don't clean 2. recognize --emulator vs --device
  • Don't show environment vars in build log for copy-www script
  • CB-4910 Update CLI project template to point to config.xml at the root now that it's not in www/ by default.
  • Move .gitignore in template to gitignore (and add the dot in the script).
  • Fix create script copying project template twice.
  • CB-5740 Use UIScrollViewDecelerationRateNormal by default.
  • CB-5420 Add device model to User-Agent cache key.
  • Copy config.xml within copy-www-build-step.sh instead of in Copy Resoruces step
  • CB-5397 Add a --cli option to bin/create that has ../../www/ ../../merges/ within the project
  • CB-5697 Fix location.reload() not firing deviceready.
  • CB-4330 Fix hash changes being treated as top-level navigations
  • CB-3359 Parse large JSON payloads on a background thread, and yield when executing multiple commands is taking too long.
  • CB-5134 Fix up bugs with new hash-based exec() bridge.
  • CB-5134 Add location.hash based exec() bridge.
  • CB-5658 Fix whitelist crash when URL path has a space.
  • CB-5583 WebView doesn't properly initialize when instantiated from a xib
  • CB-5046: Adding a defaults.xml template
  • CB-5290 templates: Updated launch images sizes to include the status bar region
  • CB-5276 Add ability to load start page from a place other then the bundle folder
  • CB-5298 Have bin/create run bin/check_reqs.
  • CB-5328 - .gitignore from cordova-ios excludes platforms/cordova/build file

What's new in Windows Phone 7 & 8

  • CB-6041 createTemplates should install theme for VS-2013 as well
  • CB-5219 weinre disconnects when history.replaceState is used
  • CB-5951 Added namespace to config.xml
  • Removed wp7 template ref to non-existent file

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-5951 Added namespace to config.xml
  • Remove template file after create by name
  • CB-4533 return error code 2 on fail, CB-5359 get tools version from the registry

What's new in BlackBerry 10

  • CB-6021 Add --release to run command
  • CB-5723 Build script should accept -l param as it does --loglevel
  • CB-6019 Supply default value of --device to the run script
  • CB-5660 use enabledelayedexpansion to handle )s in path
  • CB-5909 Fixed issue where check-reqs skipped checking logic on second pass-through - Removed depend

What's new in FirefoxOS

  • No significant Changes

What's new in Ubuntu (touch)

  • No significant Changes

What's new in Amazon FireOS

  • Upleveled changes from Cordova Android

What's new in Cordova-CLI

  • CB-5638 Clean-up: remove unreachable info case from function
  • CB-5937 Add platform check command: Shows platforms that are out of date
  • CB-5634 Minor refactoring + tests for Android's orientation preference.
  • CB-5634 Set Android orientation from config.xml
  • Upleveled amazon_fireos_parser. Making it at par with android_parser.js
  • CB-5947 Throw when trying to create project inside custom www.
  • CB-4153 Update help.txt about --source -> --copy-from

Plugin versions tested with this release

  • cordova-plugin-battery-status: 0.2.7
  • cordova-plugin-camera: 0.2.7
  • cordova-plugin-console: 0.2.7
  • cordova-plugin-contacts: 0.2.8
  • cordova-plugin-device: 0.2.8
  • cordova-plugin-device-motion: 0.2.6
  • cordova-plugin-device-orientation: 0.3.5
  • cordova-plugin-dialogs: 0.2.6
  • cordova-plugin-file: 1.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-file-transfer: 0.4.1
  • cordova-plugin-geolocation: 0.3.6
  • cordova-plugin-globalization: 0.2.6
  • cordova-plugin-inappbrowser: 0.3.1
  • cordova-plugin-media: 0.2.8
  • cordova-plugin-media-capture: 0.2.7
  • cordova-plugin-network-information: 0.2.7
  • cordova-plugin-splashscreen: 0.2.7
  • cordova-plugin-vibration: 0.3.7