Apache Cordova Windows 5.0.0

By: Sergey Shakhnazarov

13 Feb 2017

We are happy to announce that Cordova Windows 5.0.0 has been released!

This release introduces a major change in resource-file behavior (see the docs on how to get the previous behavior back for referenced files) and adds WinMD + C++ based DLL combination support for plugins.
Another highlight is a new feature of buildFlag similar to --gradleArg on Android and --buildFlag on iOS allowing to pass custom flags to MSBuild.
The release also fixes some issues with SplashScreen and VS project generation.
See release notes below for more detals and the rest of the changes.

To upgrade:

npm install -g cordova
cd my_project
cordova platform update windows@5.0.0

To add it explicitly:

cordova platform add windows@5.0.0

What's new in Windows platform

CB-12163 Add resource-file reference functionality through a flag
CB-12163 Make resource-file copy files again
Upgrade cordova-common to 2.0.0
CB-12298 [Windows] bundle.appxupload not generated for Windows 10 target
CB-12189 Add support for WinMD and DLL combination
CB-12238 [Windows] Colorize titlebar to match splash bg color
CB-11177 SplashScreen gets shifted on Windows devices with soft navbar
CB-12239 Add buildFlag option similar to iOS
CB-12193 cordova.js crashes windows app if there is no CoreWindow Also made confighelper to load after WinJS as it depends on it
CB-11751 'extendedSplashScreen' is undefined
CB-12192 No SplashScreen on Windows when content.src is subpage
CB-9287 Not enough Icons and Splashscreens for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1
CB-11933 Do not ignore already prefixed capabilities at plugin add/rm
CB-11933 Fix pattern for extracting capabilities names
CB-12142 Move windows-specific logic from cordova-common
CB-12147 (windows) Fix typo in verbose output
CB-12124 Make available device capabilities in package.windows10.appxmanifest
CB-12071 Fix for CB-11825 breaks usage of InProcessServer in Cordova Windows
CB-12036 Fix setSplashBgColor exception when no splashscreen is found