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name: Audrey So
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title: "Apache Cordova 7.0.0" categories: news

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We are happy to announce that Apache Cordova 7.0.0 has been released!

Most notable changes include:

cordova@7.0.0
cordova-lib@7.0.0
plugman@1.5.0
cordova-app-hello-world@3.12.0
cordova-common@2.0.3
cordova-create@1.1.0
cordova-fetch@1.1.0
If a package.json does not exist in your project, it will be auto-created for you when cordova prepare is called.
When adding a platform or plugin, the previous default behavior of not-saving has changed to saving. Now it will automatically save that platform or plugin to your config.xml and package.json. Details about platform and plugin versions are also automatically saved in config.xml and package.json. The --save flag is no longer required to save. Use --nosave to prevent saving to config.xml or package.json.
Fetch is now the default method for fetching platforms. Fetch uses your system npm to npm install modules into your project. The --fetch flag is no longer required. Use the --nofetch flag to revert to pre-Cordova@7.0 behavior (npm install is not used to fetch modules).
After cordova prepare is run, package.json and config.xml should contain identical platforms and versions. In case of conflicts, package.json is given precedence over config.xml. For example, suppose package.json contains cordova-android@6.0.0 and config.xml contains cordova-android@4.0.0. After cordova prepare is run, config.xml and package.json will each contain only cordova-android@6.0.0.
Platforms and plugins are now required to have a package.json file.
We have added support for custom platforms. This will allow future custom platforms, and modified versions of existing platforms. Example:
```
cordova platform add custom-platform-name
```
A cordova config command has been created to set, get, delete, edit, and list global Cordova options. For example, you can use the following command cordova config set <key> <value> to set the value of autosave or fetch to true or false.

In the following case, you are turning off autosave as the default setting. autosave is true by default in cordova. Example:
```
cordova config set autosave false
```
In the following case, you are turning off fetch as the default setting. fetch is true by default in cordova. Example:
```
cordova config set fetch false
```
In addition, the cordova config command supports the browserify setting, which allows the JavaScript of plugins to be loaded at build time compared to run time. For instance, if the browserify value is not explicitly passed in by the user, the cordova config command will automatically set the browserify value saved in ~/.config/configstore/ to be saved globally. Users can get and set browserify. browserify is false by deafult in cordova. Example:
```
cordova config get browserify
cordova config set browserify true
```
Dropped support for node 0.x. Only node versions 4.0 and up are supported.
Dropped support for wp8 (windows phone 8).
cordova-windows : dropped support for any versions older than 4.0.0.
cordova-android : dropped support for any versions older than 5.0.0.
cordova-ios : dropped support for any versions older than 4.0.0.
cordova-osx : dropped support for any versions older than 4.0.0.

To upgrade:

npm install -g cordova@latest

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

Changes include:

cordova-lib

CB-12747: updated pinned platforms
CB-12705: Modified (before|after)_plugin_(uninstall|install) to always expect existence of plugin field
CB-12705: Pass plugin info to project *_plugin_install hooks
CB-11242: removed support for platforms that don't have a package.json
CB-11242: updated tests and fixtures
CB-11242: refactored out getPlatformApiFunction
CB-11242: removed parser and handler files for deprecated versions of platforms
CB-12683: improved error messaging for when a plugin doesn't have package.json
CB-12674: Added deprecation notice for blackberry10 and ubuntu
CB-11777: Restore plugins before preparing
CB-12643: removed references to wp8
CB-12645: removed references to firefoxos
CB-12665: removed engineStrict as it is no longer supported
CB-12612: removing old amazon-fireos code
CB-12425: autocreate a package.json if it doesn't exist during cordova prepare
CB-12517: package.json name field is config.xml id field and package.json displayName field is config.xml name field
CB-12592: added requireNoCache function and replaced instances of delete.require cache
CB-12606: Fix plugin dependency installation. Now it respects the spec specified for dependencies of plugins in plugin.xml
CB-12016: removed pluginMapper code from uninstall
CB-12337: Resolve symbolic links in project root
CB-11346: Remove known platforms check
CB-11977: removed support for node 0.x
CB-12021: Added local path support to --fetch and fixed failing tests for adding a relative path
CB-11960: Added support to package.json for platform/plugin add/rm
CB-12001: Added support for platform/plugin & spec restore to sync config.xml and package.json

cordova-cli

CB-12570: cordova-fetch is true by default. Use --nofetch flag to fetch platforms and plugins using old fetching logic.
CB-12665: removed engineStrict as it is no longer supported
CB-11982: added edit and ls to cordova config
CB-11982: added new cordova config command that sets, gets, and deletes global environment variables.
CB-12008: updated docs to reflect new autosave changes and removed variables missed due to rebase
CB-12008: made autosave the default for platform and plugin add/remove
CB-11977: removed support for node 0.x

cordova-fetch

CB-12665: removed enginestrict since it is deprecated
added support for dealing with local path targets

cordova-common

CB-8978: Add option to get resource-file from root
CB-11908: Add tests for edit-config in config.xml
CB-12665: removed enginestrict since it is deprecated

plugman

CB-12747: Updated cordova-lib dependency to 7.0.0

cordova-create

CB-10681: templates will add @latest when fetching from npm when no version is specified. This will ensure an older cached version of the template is not used
CB-12666: Remove node 0.x support.
CB-12517: package.json displayname should equal config.xml name field and package.json name field should equal config.xml id field.

cordova-app-hello-world

CB-12684: added package.json to default hello world app
Add GitHub pull request template

Pinned Platform Versions for Cordova CLI 7.0.0

Cordova Android: ~6.2.2
Cordova BlackBerry10: ~3.8.0
Cordova Browser: ~4.1.0
Cordova iOS: ~4.4.0
Cordova OSX: ~4.0.1
Cordova Ubuntu: ~4.3.4
Cordova Windows: ~5.0.0
Cordova WebOS: ~3.7.0

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