layout: post author: name: Andrew Grieve url: https://twitter.com/GrieveAndrew title: “Tools Release: March 5, 2014” categories: news tags: release tools

New versions of plugman and cordova are now live!

To update your tools:

npm update -g cordova
npm update -g plugman

Most notable changes include:

  • New command plugman create for generating a plugin template (CB-4886)
  • No longer necessary to run cordova prepare after installing a plugin (CB-5647)
  • cordova now shows output of builds and hook scripts
  • Installing multiple plugins at once is now faster (CB-5885)

Other changes include:

cordova

  • Speed up prepare by using plugman's new reapply_global_munge() (CB-5299)
  • Make “Generating config.xml from defaults” a verbose log (CB-6076)
  • Use spawn helper for all sub-shelling. (CB-5181)
  • Enable stdio for build sub-commands and hooks (CB-6049, CB-5181)

plugman

  • Move <assets> copying from install to prepare (CB-5647)
  • Include platform tag information when publishing plugins (CB-5804)
  • Logging tweaks to be less verbose (CB-6076)
  • Accept proxy config for plugman (CB-5017)
  • Add <resource-file> support on Android (CB-5720)
  • config-changes.js: Major refactor & introduced reapply_global_munge()
  • FFOS: Look for config.xml in www_dir and in project_dir (CB-6088)
  • iOS: Do not add static libraries (.a) to source files (CB-6025)
  • Win8/WP: Added SDKReference support via <lib-file> tags
  • Win8/WP: Remove ability to add .dll as content - it should be a framework/reference
  • Win8/WP: Added ability to add+remove ref to .winmd files