layout: post
author:
name: Andrew Grieve
url: https://twitter.com/GrieveAndrew
title: "Apache Cordova 3.3.0"
categories: announcements
tags: news releases
On Friday, Cordova 3.3
went live on npm. Woohoo!
This release brings with it initial support for Ubuntu Touch
as well as Amazon Fire OS!
To upgrade: (replace android
with the platform you want to update):
npm install -g cordova
cd my_project
cordova platform update android
For non-CLI projects or for pre-3.0 projects, refer to the upgrade guides.
What's new in Android
41 commits from 11 authors. Highlights include:
- CB-5481 Fix for Cordova trying to get config.xml from the wrong namespace
- CB-5487 Enable Remote Debugging when your Android app is debuggable.
- CB-5445 Adding onScrollChanged and the ScrollEvent object
- CB-5422 Don't require JAVA_HOME to be defined
- CB-5490 Add javadoc target to ant script
- CB-5471 Deprecated DroidGap class
- CB-5255 Prefer Google API targets over android-## targets when building.
- CB-5232 Change create script to use Cordova as a Library Project instead of a .jar
- CB-5302 Massive movement to get tests working again
- CB-4996 Fix paths with spaces while launching on emulator and device
- CB-5209 Cannot build Android app if project path contains spaces
What's new in iOS
What's new in Windows Phone 7 & 8
- CB-5360 Removed Compiler warnings
- CB-4538 Copy check_reqs scripts in create script
- CB-4103 Make config parameter checks case-insensitive WP7+WP8
- CB-2347 Add support for config.xml preference: 'fullscreen'
- CB-5203 Using XmlHTTPRequest.open on WP8 raises a TypeError
- CB-5435 Handle missing preferences gracefully ( config.xml )
- CB-5354 Networking becomes a required permission so that XHR can work
- disable Idle detection when debugging for wp7+wp8
Windows Phone 7 is now deprecated! Consider upgrading your projects to
Windows Phone 8 as we will be dropping support completely in version 3.7.0
Read the retrospective here: http://www.risingj.com/archives/585
What's new in Windows 8
- CB-5040
cordova run windows8
has no effect
What's new in BlackBerry 10
- CB-5434 Windows: Always use USERPROFILE for home directory
- CB-5443 Windows: Handle installed 64 bit Java
- CB-5468 Improve config.xml encoding handling
- CB-5509 Remove ability to set default target (since device detection is now used)
- CB-5510 Update response codes for plugin success/fail
- CB-5413 Device detection - iterate through all 169.254.x networks
- CB-5317 Move signing warn logic to build/run scripts
- CB-5258 Use exit library for process.exit
What's new in FirefoxOS
What's new in Cordova-CLI
- CB-5347 Handle dangling platform symlink in cordova platform add
- Added deprecation notice about wp7
- Updated plugman version to 0.17.0
- CB-5238 Adds support on iOS for
<framework src="..." custom="true" />
- CB-5573 relies on stderr content and error codes to detect a problem with xcode installation.
- CB-4382 Pass cli arguments to project-level hooks
- CB-5362 blackberry parser: support local cordova-blackberry
- CB-5345 Add pre_package event for windows8 parser.
Plugin versions tested with this release
- cordova-plugin-battery-status: 0.2.5
- cordova-plugin-camera: 0.2.5
- cordova-plugin-console: 0.2.5
- cordova-plugin-contacts: 0.2.6
- cordova-plugin-device: 0.2.5
- cordova-plugin-device-motion: 0.2.4
- cordova-plugin-device-orientation: 0.3.3
- cordova-plugin-dialogs: 0.2.4
- cordova-plugin-file: 0.2.5
- cordova-plugin-file-transfer: 0.4.0
- cordova-plugin-geolocation: 0.3.4
- cordova-plugin-globalization: 0.2.4
- cordova-plugin-inappbrowser: 0.2.5
- cordova-plugin-media: 0.2.6
- cordova-plugin-media-capture: 0.2.5
- cordova-plugin-network-information: 0.2.5
- cordova-plugin-splashscreen: 0.2.5
- cordova-plugin-vibration: 0.3.5