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name: Bryan Ellis

title: "Tools Released!" categories: news

tags: release tools

We are happy to announce that we have just released an update to our tools!

Release Highlights

As NodeJS 4.x support has been dropped by the NodeJS team on April 30th, 2018, we have raised the minimum required NodeJS version for this release to 6.x.

Please report any issues you find at issues.cordova.io!

Changes include:

cordova-app-hello-world

GH-24 Absorb cordova-template-reference
Slight CSS modernization & use system fonts
CB-12886: Fix for safe-area handling on iOS 11+
CB-14098: Remove unused res folder
CB-12397: fix .gitignore for plugins & platforms
CB-12762: point package.json repo items to github instead of apache mirrors site

cordova-fetch

GH-56 Bump dependency cordova-common@3 and fs-extra@7
GH-48 Added test coverage
GH-49 Drop Q usage for native promises
GH-50 Handle broken NODE_PATH setups gracefully
GH-44 Look for node_modules in any recursive parent directory
GH-26 CB-14173: Fix cordova <platform|plugin> add --link
GH-24 CB-14133: Avoid fetching already installed packages
GH-23 CB-14140: Remove shelljs
GH-18 Simplify installation location retrieval
GH-22 Handle missing options
GH-21 CB-14066: Drop support for Node 4
CB-13503: fix trimID bug when using file:path/to/plugin
GH-12 Enabling support for git+http

cordova-js

GH-168 CB-14071: Drop Node 4 Support
GH-162 CB-14156: Remove Browserify
GH-175 Remove support for deprecated platforms, unused dependency (express) and unused tasks

cordova-serve

GH-14 CB-14198: (all) Fix bug when running simulate --target= under non-US Windows 10
GH-15 Don't restore mocked resource prior to resolution
GH-13 Dependency updates & replacing shelljs with which
GH-12 CB-14069: Drop Node 4, Add Node 10 Support
GH-10 CB-14191: (android) Fix bug with module requiring

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