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name: Steve Gill
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title: "Tools Release: August 13th, 2015" categories: news

tags: release tools

New versions of cordova tools are now live!

Release highlights:

CB-9330 Removed Plugman publish, unpublish, addUser and owner add/rm commands due to plugins.cordova.io switching to read only. Plugin authors are encouraged to publish to npm instead. Learn more at http://plugins.cordova.io/npm/authors.html.
CB-5578 Adds clean command to cordova-cli. This cleans the build artifacts for your project. Run cordova clean -h for more information.
CB-9177 Use tilde instead of caret when saving to config.xml via --save flag.
CB-9225 Add Windows platform support to plugman platform add
CB-9114: Deprecation Warning for --usegit flag.
Browserify flag for adding plugins at build time vs run time has all tests passings. Please try it out via --browserify. EX. cordova run android --browserify.

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-lib

CB-9436 Removes require-tr bundle transformation
CB-9278: Restoring multiple platforms fails. This closes #266
CB-9421 Added a test for plugin fetch with searchpath parameter
CB-9421 Fixed searchpath parameter being ignored. This closes #269
Update xcode dependency to latest stable version. This closes #272
CB-9420 Fixes malformed require calls in browserify bundle. This closes #270
CB-9405 limit author/description to 256 char per WMAppManifest schema
CB-9414 plugin fetching now defaults to npm, CPR fallback
CB-9384 Added tests that test plugin fetch from github branch|tag|sha
added comment outlining the types of things git_ref can be : commit SHA | branch | tag
actually checkout git_ref because it may be a branch OR a commit SHA
CB-9332 Upgrade npm and semver to actual versions
CB-9330 updated wording for warning messages for removal of publish/unpublish commands
Adds stubs for publish/unpublish commands. This closes #254
CB-9330 Removes 'plugman publish' related functionality
CB-9335: Windows quality-of-life improvements. To align with the change in Cordova-Windows which removes the Windows 8 project from the solution file used by Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, the same is done in the spec.
Fix prepare to wait the promise from plugman prepare.
CB-9362 Don't fail if superspawn can't chmod a file
CB-9122 Added tests for platform/plugin add/rm/update with --save flag. This closes #246
Fixed ios node-xcode related tests failing on Windows according to version update
Added webOS parsers for project creation/manipulation
CB-8965 Prevent cli from copying cordova.js and cordova-js-src/ multiple times
CB-9114: Log deprecation message when --usegit flag is used. This closes #234
CB-9126 Fix ios pbxproj' resources paths when adding ios platform on non-OSX environment.
CB-9221 Updates cordova serve command to use cordova-serve module.
CB-9225 Add windows platform support to plugman platform add
CB-9163 when engine check isn't satisfied, skip that plugin install
CB-9162 Adds support for default values for plugin variables.
CB-9188 Confusing error after delete plugin folder then prepare.
CB-9145 prepare can lose data during config munge
CB-9177 Use tilde instead of caret when save to config.xml.
CB-9147 Adding a platform via caret version adds latest rather than the latest matching.
CB-5578 Adds clean module to cordova. This closes #241
CB-9124 Makes network-related errors' messages more descriptive.
CB-9067 fixed plugman config set registry and adduser
CB-8993 Plugin restore ignores search path. This closes #224
CB-9108 Handle version ranges when add platform with --usegit.
CB-8898 Makes error message descriptive when requirements is called outside of cordova project.
CB-8007 Two cordova plugins modifying *-Info.plist CFBundleURLTypes
CB-9065 Allow removing plugins by short name.
CB-9001 Set WMAppManifest.xml Author, Description and Publisher attributes based on config.xml
CB-9073 Allow to add platform if project path contains & symbol

cordova-cli

CB-9114: Deprecation Warning for --usegit flag.
CB-9171 Support Plugin Variables with =
CB-5578 Adds clean command to cordova-cli.
CB-8993 Plugin restore ignores search path. This closes #213
CB-9121 Add support for build configuration to be specified using the CLI
CB-8898 Adds missing section about requirements to general cordova help

cordova-js

CB-9429 Removes tests from resultant bundle
CB-9436 Removes require-tr bundle transformation
CB-9429 Enables jsdom/browser tests for browserify.
Fix webOS SmartTV/wearable detection
Add webOS as a platform to build from/for.
Fixed issues with data transforms when using browserify
CB-9370 Fixes failing tests on Node 0.12 due to stale dependency
CB-9291 Removes the requirement for specific NodeJS version
Added common 'activated' channel
CB-9156 added support for absolute platform paths
CB-9156 platform version grabbing supports custom paths
CB-9156 added ability to pass in custom path via command line for platforms
CB-8468 - Application freezes if breakpoint hits JavaScript callback invoked from native

plugman

updated help with changes for npm publishing
CB-9330 Removed Plugman publish, unpublish, addUser and owner add/rm commands due to plugins.cordova.io switching to read only. Plugin authors are encouraged to publish to npm instead. Learn more at http://plugins.cordova.io/npm/authors.html.
CB-9332 Removes unnecessary dependencies

Pinned Platform Versions for Cordova CLI 5.1.1

Cordova Amazon-FireOS: ~3.6.3
Cordova Android: ~4.1.0 (4.1.1)
Cordova BlackBerry10: ~3.7.0
Cordova Browser: ~3.6.0
Cordova FirefoxOS: ~3.6.3
Cordova iOS: ~3.9.0 (3.9.1)
Cordova Ubuntu: ~4.0.0
Cordova Windows: ~4.0.0
Cordova WP8: ~3.8.1

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