Tools Release

By: Vladimir Kotikov

13 Jul 2016

New updates of cordova, cordova-lib, cordova-common and cordova-fetch are now live!

Release Highlights:

CB-11023 Add edit-config functionality
CB-11412 template support for www folders
CB-11349 added --fetch and cordova fetch to create --template
CB-11491 Introduce before_deploy hook

Starting from this version app and plugin developers will get the ability to edit XML configuration files from config.xml and plugin.xml files using edit-config directive. The documentation for this feature is still under development but for now you can refer to this pull request

Also the cordova-fetch feature is now available for create command and you can use it when creating new app from template.

cordova create Foo --template TEMPLATE_NAME --fetch

To update your cordova CLI:

npm install -g cordova@latest

Make sure to report any issues you find at issues.cordova.io!

Changes include:

cordova-lib

CB-11491 Introduce before_deploy hook
CB-11412 template support for www folders
Fix config.xml path in PlatformApi.prepare
CB-11412 improve template implementation
CB-11164 Allow forced dependent plugin removal
CB-11339 Add a warning about prerelease platform usage
CB-11349 added --fetch and cordova fetch to create --template
CB-11337 Use latest released platform version in e2e tests
CB-11274 Platform browser: wrong path for config.xml
CB-11274 Make serve dashboard take config.xml -> content.src entry point into account
CB-11261 Cut out '-nightly' prerelease tag when checking plugin engines
CB-9858 added fetch tests to travis
CB-9858 fixed failing travis and appveyor tests

cordova-cli

CB-11412 removed link-to, aliased copy-from to template
CB-11349 passing --fetch to create
CB-11284 Telemetry: Track platforms/plugins subcommands(add/rm/etc…)
CB-11262 Add a warning about prerelease lib/cli usage
CB-11263 'cordova telemetry help' should display help text

cordova-common

CB-11023 Add edit-config functionality

cordova-fetch

Fixed broken fetch tests
enhanced cordova-fetch to better handle multiple fetches via git urls
CB-11252 Fix cordova-fetch tests
CB-11252 minor fix to trimID function in cordova-fetch
CB-11252 Fix cordova fetch for scoped packages
CB-11252 added scoped package test to cordova-fetch

Pinned Platform Versions for Cordova CLI 6.3.0

Cordova Amazon-FireOS: ~3.6.3
Cordova Android: ~5.2.0
Cordova BlackBerry10: ~3.8.0
Cordova Browser: ~4.1.0
Cordova FirefoxOS: ~3.6.3
Cordova iOS: ~4.2.0
Cordova OSX: ~4.0.1
Cordova Ubuntu: ~4.3.4
Cordova Windows: ~4.4.0
Cordova WebOS: ~3.7.0
Cordova WP8: ~3.8.2