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name: Steve Gill
url: https://twitter.com/stevesgill

title: "Tools Release: January 09, 2015" categories: news

tags: release tools

New versions of cordova tools are now live!

To update your tools:

If you have cordova installed:
```
npm install -g cordova
```
If you have plugman installed:
```
npm install -g plugman
```

Changes include:

Platform updates

When adding these platforms to your project, the following versions are now used by default. These platform versions were released recently, and the tools' defaults were updated:

Cordova Ubuntu 4.0.0
Cordova WP8 3.7.1
Cordova BlackBerry10 3.7.0

cordova-lib

ConfigParser: refactor getPreference()
Parsers: add base parser (parser.js) and make platform parsers inherit from it
CB-8230 Make project.properties optional for Android sub-libraries
CB-8215 Improve error message when <source-file> is missing target-dir on Android
CB-8217 Fix plugin add --link when plugin given as relative path
CB-8216 Resolve plugin paths relative to original CWD
CB-7803 Allow adding any platform on any host OS
CB-8155 Do not fail plugin installation from git url with --link
Updates README with description of npm commands for this package
CB-8129 Adds npm run cover command to generate tests coverage report
CB-8114 Specify a cache-min-time for plugins
CB-8190 Make plugman config/cache directory to be customizable via PLUGMAN_HOME
CB-7610 Fix cordova plugin add d:\path (or any other non-c: path)
CB-8158 Added hasModule check to browserify code
CB-8173 Point to the latest Ubuntu version
CB-8179 Point to the latest WP8 version
CB-8158 Adding symbolList to cordova.js
CB-8154 Fix errors adding platforms or plugins
browserify: updated require to use symbollist
Amazon Added a type named gradleReference in framework
CB-7736 Update npm dep to promote qs module to 1.0
CB-8086 Prefixed subprojects with package name
CB-8067 externalized valid-identifier it is its own module
Added identifier checking for app id, searches for java+C# reserved words
CB-6472 Adding content to -Info.plist - Unexpected behaviour
CB-8053 Including a project reference in a plugin fails on Windows platform
Pass the searchpath when installing plugins
Add a type named gradleReference in framework

cordova

CB-6756 Use cordova_lib.binname instead of cordova
CB-8129 Adds npm run cover command to generate tests coverage report
searchpath option is added to restore

cordova-js

CB-8210 Use the correct plugin for App/CoreAndroid plugin based on platformVersion
CB-8210 Android: Fire events from native via message channel
CB-8210 Android: Add message channel for events
CB-8129 Adds cover grunt task to generate tests coverage report
Amazon related change: base64.toArrayBuffer to convert base64 strings
CB-8158 Populating symbolList

plugman

Fix broken link to Chrome plugins

Pinned Platform Versions for Cordova CLI 4.2.0

Cordova Amazon-FireOS: 3.6.3
Cordova Android: 3.6.4
Cordova BlackBerry10: 3.7.0
Cordova Browser: 3.6.0
Cordova FirefoxOS: 3.6.3
Cordova iOS: 3.7.0
Cordova Ubuntu: 4.0.0
Cordova Windows: 3.7.1
Cordova WP8: 3.7.1

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