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name: Andrew Grieve
url: https://twitter.com/GrieveAndrew

title: "Tools Release: March 5, 2014" categories: news

tags: release tools

New versions of plugman and cordova are now live!

• plugman@0.20.2
• cordova@3.4.0-0.1.3

To update your tools:

npm update -g cordova
npm update -g plugman

Most notable changes include:

• New command plugman create for generating a plugin template (CB-4886)
• No longer necessary to run cordova prepare after installing a plugin (CB-5647)
• cordova now shows output of builds and hook scripts
• Installing multiple plugins at once is now faster (CB-5885)

Other changes include:

cordova

• Speed up prepare by using plugman's new reapply_global_munge() (CB-5299)
• Make "Generating config.xml from defaults" a verbose log (CB-6076)
• Use spawn helper for all sub-shelling. (CB-5181)
• Enable stdio for build sub-commands and hooks (CB-6049, CB-5181)

plugman

• Move <assets> copying from install to prepare (CB-5647)
• Include platform tag information when publishing plugins (CB-5804)
• Logging tweaks to be less verbose (CB-6076)
• Accept proxy config for plugman (CB-5017)
• Add <resource-file> support on Android (CB-5720)
• config-changes.js: Major refactor & introduced reapply_global_munge()
• FFOS: Look for config.xml in www_dir and in project_dir (CB-6088)
• iOS: Do not add static libraries (.a) to source files (CB-6025)
• Win8/WP: Added SDKReference support via <lib-file> tags
• Win8/WP: Remove ability to add .dll as content - it should be a framework/reference
• Win8/WP: Added ability to add+remove ref to .winmd files