layout: post author: name: Steve Gill url: https://twitter.com/stevesgill title: “Tools Release: April 9, 2014” categories: news tags: release tools ios

New versions of plugman, cordova and cordova-ios are now live!

To update your tools:

npm update -g cordova
npm update -g plugman

Cordova iOS 3.4.1 is included with the latest update of cordova.

Most notable changes include:

  • Update Xcode .pbxproj files according to Xcode 5.1 recommendations
  • CB-4863 Drop iOS 5.0 support
  • CB-4863 supporting iOS arm64 by default
  • CB-6160 Fix plugin add for FirefoxOS.
  • Fix to never remove top-level plugins that are dependencies + tests.
  • CB-6211 cordova info command fixed for Windows platform

Other changes include:

cordova-cli

  • updated to use cordova-iOS 3.4.1
  • CB-6377 Fix up superspawns cmd fallback when there is a space in the args
  • CB-6377 Remove windowsVerbatimArguments from superspawn
  • CB-6377 Handle spaces in paths for cmd related scripts
  • CB-6141 Fix Windows8 tests
  • CB-6267 Windows8. Apply BackgroundColor from config.xml
  • CB-6338 Improve errors for missing templates
  • CB-6306 Error creating project when path to project includes spaces
  • CB-6211 cordova info command fixed for Windows platform
  • CB-6209 Uplevel changes from android_parser to amazon_fireos_parser. Added orientation related config changes from android_parser.
  • When searchpath is specified in config and CLI, merge them.

plugman

  • CB-6344 Specify after which sibling to add config-changes in plugin.xml
  • CB-6272 Fix subdir bug + tests & meta fetch with a src directory
  • src/platforms.js: Adding Tizen.
  • Throw an error when a <dependency> tag is missing id attribute.
  • Added org.apache.cordova.statusbar into the registry whitelist.
  • CB-6160 Fix plugin add for FirefoxOS.
  • Fix to never remove top-level plugins that are dependencies + tests.
  • Allow --searchpath to have a delimiter
  • CB-5970 added type attribute projectReference to <framework> element to signal addition of dependent project
  • Separate out adding a dependent project from adding a .winmd reference in Windows8
  • CB-6119 Fix plugman info command printing undefined always
  • CB-6159 Fix incorrect “success” message when publishing fails.

cordova-ios

  • Update Xcode .pbxproj files according to Xcode 5.1 recommendations
  • CB-6327 Allow . in plugin feature names (and therefore callback ids)
  • CB-6287 Add build script support for arm64
  • CB-6217 iOS simulator targets not consistent across scripts
  • CB-5286 Fix warnings when compiled under arm64
  • CB-4863 Drop iOS 5.0 support
  • CB-4863 supporting iOS arm64 by default
  • CB-6150 objc _msgSend causes EXC _BAD _ACCESS with plugins on arm64
  • Validate that callback IDs are always well-formed
  • CB-5018 bin/create on iOS should use --arc by default