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Plugins Release
By: Steve Gill
20 Dec 2017

The following plugins were updated today:

  • cordova-plugin-battery-status@2.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-camera@4.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-contacts@3.0.1
  • cordova-plugin-device@2.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-dialogs@2.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-file@6.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-geolocation@4.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-globalization@1.0.9
  • cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@2.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-media@5.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-media-capture@3.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-network-information@2.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-splashscreen@5.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-statusbar@2.4.0
  • cordova-plugin-screen-orientation@3.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-vibration@3.0.0

In the recent cordova@8 tools release, we dropped support for deprecated platforms (Ubuntu, BlackBerry10, Windows Phone 8, FirefoxOS). The main focus of this plugins release was to drop support for those platforms as well. That is why many of the plugins have had major version increases.

cordova-plugin-contacts and cordova-plugin-globalization have officially been deprecated. Read about our decision to deprecate cordova-plugin-contacts at https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/11/27/Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.html. For cordova-plugin-globalization, we have written a migration guide over to the built-in ECMA Internationalization API at https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/11/20/migrate-from-cordova-globalization-plugin.html.

You can update any plugin by removing it, and then re-adding it.

E.g. To update your camera plugin:

cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-camera
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-camera@latest

Changes include: cordova-plugin-battery-status@2.0.0

cordova-plugin-camera@4.0.0

cordova-plugin-contacts@3.0.1

  • CB-13062: Deprecated this plugin. Added notice to README.md

cordova-plugin-device@2.0.0

cordova-plugin-dialogs@2.0.0

  • CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
  • CB-13555 (ios) Present notification view controller by InAppBrowser view controller

cordova-plugin-file@6.0.0

cordova-plugin-geolocation@4.0.0

cordova-plugin-globalization@1.0.9

  • Deprecated this plugin. Read our migration guide at https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/11/20/migrate-from-cordova-globalization-plugin.html
  • Update moment.js to version 2.19.1

cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@2.0.0

cordova-plugin-media@5.0.0

cordova-plugin-media-capture@3.0.0

cordova-plugin-network-information@2.0.0

cordova-plugin-splashscreen@5.0.0

cordova-plugin-statusbar@2.4.0

cordova-plugin-screen-orientation@3.0.0

cordova-plugin-vibration@3.0.0

  • CB-13667: Remove deprecated platforms
  • CB-13045 Removed Android implementation and Updated README