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name: Steve Gill
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title: "Tools Release: March 02, 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
```

Release highlights:

Cordova-iOS developers will need to update their iOS-deploy dependency to launch on iOS devices. Please run npm install -g ios-deploy to install the latest version 1.4.0.
You can now save your list of installed plugins and platforms using the --save command when adding platforms and plugins to your project. Saved platforms and plugins are automagically restored during prepare. Ex. cordova platform add android --save. This should make it easier developing cordova projects among a team.
Plugin authors can use the new command plugman createpackagejson <plugin_path> to add a package.json file to their plugins.
We are preparing to transition our plugin hosting over to npm. We will be doing a detailed blog post soon. Stay tuned.

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-lib

Updated pinned versions of iOS to 3.8.0 and Android to 3.7.1
CB-8284 Revert npm dependency due to issues with registry
CB-8524 Switched to the latest Windows release
changed createpackage.json keyword to ecosystem:cordova
CB-8448 Add support for activities
CB-8482 Rename: platformId -> platformName
CB-8482 Update engine syntax within config.xml
--save flag for plugins
Restore plugins and platforms on prepare
CB-8472 Can't find config.xml error installing browser platform after plugin
CB-8469 Android: Call into platform's build.js after plugin add so that Android Studio will work without needing an explicit command-line build first
CB-8123 Plugin references can target specific Windows platforms
CB-8420 Make cordova plugin add FOO use version from config.xml
CB-8239 Fix cordova platform add PATH when PATH is relative and CWD != project root
CB-8227 CB8237 CB-8238 Add --save flag and autosave to cordova platform add, cordova platform remove and cordova platform update
CB-8409 compile: bubble failures
CB-8239 Fix cordova platform update should ignore <cdv:engine>
CB-8390 Android: Make <framework custom=false> work with Gradle
CB-8416 Updated plugman publish to temporarily rename existing package.json files
CB-8416 Added plugman createpackagejson . command to create a package.json from plugin.xml
CB-8377 Fixed <runs> tag parsing
CB-5696 Find iOS project directory using the xcode project file
CB-8373 Android: Add Gradle references to project.properties rather than build.gradle
CB-8370 Make plugman publish without args default to CWD
CB-8366 Android: Remove empty <framework> directory upon uninstall
CB-6973 Enable JSHint for spec-cordova
CB-8239 Add support for git urls to 'cordova platform add'
CB-8358 Add --link for platform add and platform update
CB-6973 Remove base rules from individual files in src
CB-8354 Add --link support for iOS source and header files
Make all ad-hoc plugin.xml parsing use PluginInfo instead
Make all usages of PluginInfo use PluginInfoProvider instead
Add PluginInfoProvider for better caching of PluginInfo
CB-8223 Expose config.xml in the Browser platform
CB-8168 --list support for cordova-lib
FireOS Improve error message when <source-file> is missing target-dir
Make addUninstalledPluginToPrepareQueue take pluginId rather than dirName

cordova-cli

CB-8439 Fix cordova platform update documentation to include <plat-spec>
CB-8379 Have --version print out cordova-lib version if it's not the same as CLI's version
CB-8211, CB-8358 Update --link help text
CB-8168 --list support for CLI
CB-8227 CB-8237 CB-8238 Add --save option to cordova platform add, cordova platform remove and cordova platform update
CB-5316 Spell Cordova as a brand unless it's a command or script
CB-7950 CLI make CordovaCliCreate.prototype.run vaguely correct

cordova-js

CB-8378 Android: Deleted hidekeyboard & showkeyboard events
Android: Use correct plugin name for navigator.app exec() calls
CB-8158 Fixed symbolList require
CB-8298 Android: Execute exec callbacks within their own stack frames
CB-8210 Remove unused onDestroy channel
Fixed callbackFromNative method

plugman

CB-8416 Added plugman createpackagejson . command to generate a package.json file from plugin.xml
CB-8370 Update documentation for plugman publish without args

Pinned Platform Versions for Cordova CLI 4.2.0

Cordova Amazon-FireOS: 3.6.3
Cordova Android: 3.7.1
Cordova BlackBerry10: 3.7.0
Cordova Browser: 3.6.0
Cordova FirefoxOS: 3.6.3
Cordova iOS: 3.8.0
Cordova Ubuntu: 4.0.0
Cordova Windows: 3.8.0
Cordova WP8: 3.7.1

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