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Cordova Fetch 5.0.0 Released!
By: Bryan Ellis
29 Aug 2025

We are happy to announce that cordova-fetch@5.0.0 has been released. This is the library used behind-the-scenes of the Cordova tooling for fetching of Cordova platforms and plugins.

Release Highlights

The most notable changes in this major release were:

  • Updated the library's npm dependencies.
  • Increased in the Node.js engine requirement to >=20.9.0.

Changes include:

Breaking Changes:

  • GH-131 chore(npm)!: bump cordova-common@6.0.0
  • GH-125 chore!: bump node requirement & npm dependencies

Chores:

  • GH-136 chore(README): update badges
  • GH-135 chore: update & add source code license headers
  • GH-130 chore: bump @cordova/eslint-config
  • GH-127 chore(coverage): Move from nyc to c8 for code coverage
  • GH-124 chore(deps-dev): bump brace-expansion from 1.1.11 to 1.1.12
  • GH-122 chore(deps): bump cross-spawn from 7.0.3 to 7.0.6
  • GH-120 chore(deps): bump micromatch from 4.0.5 to 4.0.8
  • GH-119 chore(deps): bump braces from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3
  • GH-116 chore(deps): Update some dependencies, add Node 20 to CI

CI:

  • GH-137 ci: workflow updates
  • GH-128 ci(workflow): update release-audit & license config
  • GH-123 ci: Add licence checker workflow
  • GH-121 ci: Fix dependabot code scanning errors
  • GH-118 ci: Set up CodeQL analysis
  • GH-117 ci: update codecov@v4 w/ token

Tests: