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 # Release Notes
                                               
+### 1.6.1 (Dec 07, 2016)
+* [CB-12154](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12154) file-transfer progressEvent.total = -1 on iOS
+* [CB-10974](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10974) Cordova file transfer Content-Length header problem
+* Don't crash on low memory devices
+* [CB-12100](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12100) (ios) Fixed test plugin install at platform add on cordova@6.3.1
+* [CB-11959](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11959) Fixed the jshint issues
+* [CB-11959](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11959) Increased the array length for ios and winstore even more
+* [CB-11959](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11959) Fixed filetransfer.spec.21 test failure on iOS and Windows Store when using local server
+* [CB-11917](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11917) - Remove pull request template checklist item: "iCLA has been submitted…"
+* [CB-11926](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11926) Tests can use local server
+* [CB-11832](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11832) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-11832](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11832) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 1.6.0
+* [CB-11795](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11795) Add 'protective' entry to cordovaDependencies
+* [CB-9022](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9022) Fix exception thrown by call to remapApi on main thread
+* Plugin uses Android Log class and not Cordova LOG class
+* [CB-9022](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9022) Resolve source URI on background thread
+* [CB-11316](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11316) windows: Added content-type for files
+* Close invalid PRs
+* [CB-11497](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11497) Use cordova-vm for testing 304 errors
+* Add badges for paramedic builds on Jenkins
+* documentation with a wrong log message in fileTransfer.download function
+* added link to sample
+* Add pull request template.
+* [CB-10974](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10974) Cordova file transfer Content-Length header problem
+* Add fenced code blocks to help code formatting
+* [CB-11165](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11165) removed peer dependency
+* [CB-11003](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11003) Adding sample section to documentation.
+* [CB-10996](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10996) Adding front matter to README.md
+* [CB-11091](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11091) Incremented plugin version.
+*  Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 1.5.1
+* [CB-10536](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10536) Removing flaky test assertions about abort callback latency
+* Removing the expectation in spec.34 for the transfer method to be called.
+* [CB-10978](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10978) Fix file-transfer.tests JSHint issues
+* [CB-10782](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10782) Occasional failure in file transfer tests causing mobilespec crash
+* [CB-10771](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10771) Fixing failure when empty string passed as a value for option parameter in upload function
+* Minor changes to Readme
+* [CB-10636](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10636) Add JSHint for plugins
+* chore: edit package.json license to match SPDX id
+* [CB-10368](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10368) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-10368](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10368) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 1.5.0
+* [CB-10208](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10208) Fix file-transfer multipart form data upload format on Windows
+* [CB-9837](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9837) Add data URI support to file-transfer upload on iOS
+* [CB-9600](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9600) FileUploadOptions params not posted on iOS
+* [CB-9840](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9840) Fallback file-transfer uploadResponse encoding to latin1 in case not encoded with UTF-8 on iOS
+* [CB-9840](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9840) Fallback file-transfer upload/download response encoding to latin1 in case not encoded with UTF-8 on iOS
+* [CB-8641](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8641) (Windows Phone 8.1) Some file-transfer plugin tests occasionally fail in mobilespec
+* Adding linting and fixing linter warnings. Reducing timeouts to 7 seconds.
+* [CB-10100](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10100) updated file dependency to not grab new majors
+* [CB-10035](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10035) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-7006](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7006) Empty file is created on file transfer if server response is 304
+* [CB-10098](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10098) filetransfer.spec.33 is faulty
+* [CB-9969](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9969) Filetransfer upload error deletes original file
+* [CB-9969](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9969) Filetransfer upload error deletes original file
+* [CB-10088](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10088) - filetransfer spec.10 and spec.11 test is faulty
+* [CB-9969](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9969) Filetransfer upload error deletes original file
+* [CB-10086](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10086) There are two spec.31 tests for file-transfer tests
+* [CB-10037](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10037) Add progress indicator to file-transfer manual tests
+* [CB-9563](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9563) Mulptipart form data is used even a header named Content-Type is present
+* [CB-8863](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8863) fix block usage of self
+* [CB-10035](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10035) linked issues in RELEASENOTES.md
+* [CB-10035](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10035) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 1.4.0
+* removed r prefix from tags
+* [CB-10035](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10035) Updated RELEASENOTES to be newest to oldest
+* [CB-9879](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9879) getCookies can cause unhandled NullPointerException
+* [CB-6928](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6928) Wrong behaviour transferring cacheable content
+* [CB-51](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-51) API: FileTransfer - Support PUT Method
+* [CB-9906](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9906) cleanup duplicate code, removed 2nd isWP8 declaration.
+* [CB-9950](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9950) Unpend Filetransfer spec.27 on wp8 as custom headers are now supported
+* filetransfer.spec.6 was failing in 4.x branch of iOS because -1 was returned.
+* [CB-9843](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9843) Added wp8 quirk to test spec 12
+* Actually fixing the contribute link.
+* Fixing contribute link.
+* Github close #101, close #25, close #54
+* add JIRA issue tracker link
+* [CB-8431](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8431) File Transfer tests crash on Android Lolipop
+* [CB-9673](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9673) Fixed test spec.6 failure on iOS
+* [CB-9790](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9790) Align FileUploadOptions fileName and mimeType default parameter values to the docs on iOS
+* [CB-9385](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9385) Return FILE_NOT_FOUND_ERR when receiving 404 code on iOS
+* [CB-9385](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9385) Return FILE_NOT_FOUND_ERR when receiving 404 code on iOS
+* [CB-9791](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9791) Decreased download and upload tests timeout
+* updated releasenotes
+* [CB-9681](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9681) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-9681](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9681) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 1.3.0
+* [CB-9624](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9624) There's a difference between what's being passed in and what should actually be sent to the File Transfer plugin
+* Found issue where : is accepted as a valid header, this is obviously wrong
+* [CB-9562](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9562) Fixed incorrect headers handling on Android
+* Fixing headers so they don't accept non-ASCII
+* updated tests to use cordova apache vm
+* [CB-9493](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9493) Fix file paths in file-transfer manual tests
+* [CB-8816](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8816) Add cdvfile:// support on windows
+* README :: remove duplicate httpMethod option.
+* removed broken link in README
+* [CB-9376](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9376) Fix FileTransfer plugin manual tests issue - 'undefined' in paths
+* remove travis-ci integration
+* [CB-9312](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9312) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-9312](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9312) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 1.2.1
+* [CB-9275](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9275) [WP8] Fix build failure on WP8 by using reflection to detect presence of JSON.NET based serialization
+* Updated code per code review.
+* Updated documentation for browser
+* Added option to allow for passing cookies automatically in the browser
+* [CB-9192](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9192) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-9202](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9202) updated repo url to github mirror in package.json
+* [CB-9192](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9192) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 1.2.0
+* [CB-9128](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9128) cordova-plugin-file-transfer documentation translation: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* [CB-6503](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6503) Null pointer check for headers in upload (This closes #27)
+* [CB-6503](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6503) Allow payload content-types other than multipart/form-data to be used for upload
+* Fix NoSuchMethodException looking up cookies.
+* fix npm md issue
+* [CB-8951](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8951) (wp8) Handle exceptions in download() and upload() again
+* [wp8] Relaxed engine version requirement, using reflection to see if methods are available
+* Check for the existence of Json.net assembly to determin how we deserialize our headers.
+* relax engine requirement to allow -dev versions
+* Remove verbose console log messages
+* fix bad commit (mine) for cordova-wp8@4.0.0 engine req
+* bump required cordova-wp8 version to 4.0.0
+* This closes #80, This closes #12
+* fix failing test resulting from overlapping async calls
+* [CB-8721](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8721) Fixes incorrect headers and upload params parsing on wp8
+* Replace all slashes in windows path
+* [CB-8959](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8959) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-8959](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8959) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 1.1.0
+* [CB-8951](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8951) Fixed crash related to headers parsing on wp8
+* [CB-8933](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8933) Increased download and upload test timeout
+* [CB-6313](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6313) [wp8]: Extra boundary in upload
+* [CB-8761](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8761) [wp8]: Copy cookies from WebBrowser
+* Revert "Revert "CB-8858 Incremented plugin version.""
+* Revert "CB-8858 Incremented plugin version."
+* fixed invalid package.json
+* [CB-8858](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8858) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-8858](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8858) Updated version in package.json for release 1.0.0
+* Revert "CB-8858 Incremented plugin version."
+* [CB-8858](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8858) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-8858](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8858) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 1.0.0
+* [CB-8746](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8746) bumped version of file dependency
+* [CB-8746](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8746) gave plugin major version bump
+* [CB-8641](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8641) Fixed tests to pass on windows and wp8
+* [CB-8583](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8583) Forces download to overwrite existing target file
+* [CB-8589](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8589) Fixes upload failure when server's response doesn't contain any data
+* [CB-8747](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8747) updated dependency, added peer dependency
+* [CB-8683](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8683) changed plugin-id to pacakge-name
+* [CB-8653](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8653) properly updated translated docs to use new id
+* [CB-8653](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8653) updated translated docs to use new id
+* Use TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR, install paramedic by npm
+* [CB-8653](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8653) Updated Readme
+* [CB-8654](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8654) Note WP8 download requests caching in docs
+* [CB-8590](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8590) (Windows) Fixed download.onprogress.lengthComputable
+* [CB-8566](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8566) Integrate TravisCI
+* [CB-8438](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8438) cordova-plugin-file-transfer documentation translation: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* [CB-8538](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8538) Added package.json file
+* [CB-8495](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8495) Fixed wp8 and wp81 test failures
+* [CB-7957](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7957) Adds support for `browser` platform
+* [CB-8429](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8429) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-8429](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8429) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.5.0 (take 2)
+* Fixes typo, introduced in https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file-transfer/commit/bc43b46
+* [CB-8407](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8407) Use File proxy to construct valid FileEntry for download success callback
+* [CB-8407](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8407) Removes excess path to native path conversion in download method
+* [CB-8429](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8429) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-8429](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8429) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.5.0
+* [CB-8095](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8095) Fixes JSHint and formatting issues
+* [CB-8095](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8095) Updates tests and documentation
+* [CB-8095](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8095) Rewrite upload method to support progress events properly
+* [CB-8429](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8429) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-8429](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8429) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.5.0 (take 2)
+* Fixes typo, introduced in https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file-transfer/commit/bc43b46
+* [CB-8407](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8407) Use File proxy to construct valid FileEntry for download success callback
+* [CB-8407](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8407) Removes excess path to native path conversion in download method
+* [CB-8429](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8429) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-8429](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8429) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.5.0
+* [CB-7957](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7957) Adds support for `browser` platform
+* [CB-8095](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8095) Fixes JSHint and formatting issues
+* [CB-8095](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8095) Updates tests and documentation
+* [CB-8095](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8095) Rewrite upload method to support progress events properly
+* android: Fix error reporting for unknown uri type on sourceUri instead of targetUri
+* [CB-5059](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5059) Add a CookieManager abstraction for pluggable webviews (close #60)
+* ios: Fix compile warning about implicity int conversion
+* [CB-8351](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8351) Use argumentForIndex rather than NSArray extension
+* [CB-8351](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8351) Use a local copy of DLog macro rather than CordovaLib version
+* www/FileTransfer.js
+* [CB-8296](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8296) ios: Fix crash when upload fails and file is not yet created (close #57)
+* cleanUrl needs relative path for local download
+* Document "body" property on FileTransferError
+* [CB-8125](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8125) Fix spec tests 28 and 29
+* [CB-8125](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8125) Reorganize and clean up test suite.
+* [CB-7912](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7912) Update to work with whitelist plugins in Cordova 4.x
+* removed unneeded String() casting all over the place, fixed my own missing ) error
+* exec guarentees that proxy is called with success/error function so there is no need to constantly check that it exists
+* Error callback should always be called with the FileTransferError object, and not just the code
+* alias appData to Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.current
+* Alias FileTransferError to FTErr to save some horizontal space
+* update array
+* [CB-8093](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8093) Fixes incorrect FileTransferError returned in case of download failure
+* [CB-8110](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8110) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-8110](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8110) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.4.8
+* Fix for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4674
+* Fixes #CB-8021 - adds documentation for httpMethod to doc/index.md. However, translations still need to be addressed.
+* [CB-7223](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7223) spec.27 marked pending for wp8
+* [CB-6900](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6900) fixed spec.7 for wp8
+* [CB-7944](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7944) Pended unsupported auto tests for windows
+* [CB-7977](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7977) Mention deviceready in plugin docs
+* [CB-7700](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7700) cordova-plugin-file-transfer documentation translation: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* [CB-7700](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7700) cordova-plugin-file-transfer documentation translation: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+*  Incremented plugin version.
+*  Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.4.7
+* Construct proper FileEntry with nativeURL property set
+* [CB-7532](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7532) Handle non-existent download dirs properly
+* [CB-7529](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7529) Adds support for 'ms-appdata' URIs for windows
+* [CB-7571](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7571) Bump version of nested plugin to match parent plugin
+* [CB-7571](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7571) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-7571](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7571) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.4.6
+* [CB-7471](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7471) cordova-plugin-file-transfer documentation translation: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* [CB-7249](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7249) cordova-plugin-file-transfer documentation translation: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* [CB-7423](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7423) fix spec28,29 lastProgressEvent not visible to afterEach function
+* Amazon related changes.
+* Remove dupe file windows+windows8 both use the same one
+* [CB-7316](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7316) Updates docs with actual information.
+* [CB-7316](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7316) Adds support for Windows platform, moves *Proxy files to proper directory.
+* [CB-7316](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7316) Improves current specs compatibility:
+* added documentation for new test
+* [CB-6466](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6466) Fix failing test due to recent url change
+* [CB-6466](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6466) created mobile-spec test
+* Renamed test dir, added nested plugin.xml and test
+* Fixed failing spec.19 on wp8
+* [CB-7244](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7244) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-7244](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7244) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.4.5
+* CB-7249cordova-plugin-file-transfer documentation translation: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* Upload parameters out of order
+* FirefoxOS initial implementation
+* added documentation to manual tests
+* [CB-6961](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6961) port file-transfer tests to framework
+* [CB-6781](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6781) Expose FileTransferError.exception to application
+* CB-7110cordova-plugin-file-transfer documentation translation: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* [CB-6928](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6928) Add new error code to documentation
+* [CB-6928](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6928) Handle 304 status code
+* [CB-6928](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6928) Open output stream only if it's necessary.
+* [BlackBerry10] Minor doc correction
+* CB-6127lisa7cordova-plugin-consolecordova-plugin-file-transfer documentation translation: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* Update release notes and clean pull requests.
+* Update index.md
+* [Windows8] upload uses the provided fileName or the actual fileName
+* [CB-2420](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2420) [Windows8] honor fileKey and param options. This closes #15
+* [CB-6781](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6781) Update new docs to match AlexNennker's changes in PR30
+* [CB-6781](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6781) Continue previous commit with one new instance (This closes #30)
+* [CB-6781](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6781) add the exception text to the error object
+* [CB-6890](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6890) Fix pluginManager access for 4.0.x branch
+* [CB-6877](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6877) Incremented plugin version.
+* [CB-6877](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6877) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.4.4
+* [CB-6127](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6127) Spanish and French Translations added. Github close #21
+* ubuntu: support 'cdvfile' URI
+* [CB-6802](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6802) Add license
+* documentation translation: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* Lisa testing pulling in plugins for plugin: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* Upload progress now works also for second file
+* Lisa testing pulling in plugins for plugin: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* [CB-6706](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6706) Relax dependency on file plugin
+* [CB-3440](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-3440) [BlackBerry10] Update implementation to use modules from file plugin
+* [CB-6378](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6378) Use connection.disconnect() instead of stream.close() for thread-safety
+* [CB-6491](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6491) add CONTRIBUTING.md
+* [CB-6466](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6466) Auto-create directories in download
+* [CB-6494](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6494) android: Fix upload of KitKat content URIs
+* [CB-6452](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6452) Incremented plugin version on dev branch.
+* [CB-6452](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6452) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.4.3
+* [CB-6460](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6460) Update license headers
+* [CB-6422](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6422) [windows8] use cordova/exec/proxy
+* iOS: Fix error where files were not removed on abort
+* [CB-5175](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5175) CDVFileTransfer asynchronous download (Fixes #24)
+* [ios] Cast id references to NSURL to avoid compiler warnings (Fixes: apache/cordova-plugin-file-transfer#18)
+* [ios] Cleanup extra semicolons
+* [CB-6212](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6212) iOS: fix warnings compiled under arm64 64-bit
+* Upleveled from android port with following commits: 3c1ff16 Andrew Grieve - [CB-5762](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5762) android: Fix lengthComputable set wrong for gzip downloads 8374b3d Colin Mahoney - [CB-5631](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5631) Removed SimpleTrackingInputStream.read(byte[] buffer) 6f91ac3 Bas Bosman - [CB-4907](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4907) Close stream when we're finished with it 651460f Christoph Neumann - [CB-6000](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6000) Nginx rejects Content-Type without a space before "boundary". 35f80e4 Ian Clelland - [CB-6050](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6050) Use instance method on actual file plugin object to get FileEntry to return on download
+* [CB-6114](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6114) Incremented plugin version on dev branch.
+* Upleveled from android port with following commits: 3c1ff16 Andrew Grieve - [CB-5762](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5762) android: Fix lengthComputable set wrong for gzip downloads 8374b3d Colin Mahoney - [CB-5631](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5631) Removed SimpleTrackingInputStream.read(byte[] buffer) 6f91ac3 Bas Bosman - [CB-4907](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4907) Close stream when we're finished with it 651460f Christoph Neumann - [CB-6000](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6000) Nginx rejects Content-Type without a space before "boundary". 35f80e4 Ian Clelland - [CB-6050](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6050) Use instance method on actual file plugin object to get FileEntry to return on download
+* Add NOTICE file
+* [CB-6114](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6114) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.4.2
+* [CB-6106](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6106) Ensure that nativeURL is used by file transfer download
+* ios:Get file plugin via commandDelegate to avoid using global file plugin directly.
+* Make it a priority to use filesystemName to create FileSystem object
+* [CB-6059](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6059) iOS: Add necessary @synchronized blocks for newly introduced multi-threading.
+* [CB-6059](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6059) iOS: Stop FileTransfer.download doing IO on the UI thread.
+* [CB-2190](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2190) Make backgroundTaskId apply to downloads as well. Move backgroundTaskId to the delegate.
+* Fix default value for trustAllHosts on iOS (YES->NO)
+* [CB-6050](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6050) Use instance method on actual file plugin object to get FileEntry to return on download
+* [CB-6022](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6022) Add backwards-compatibility notes to doc
+* [CB-5980](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5980) Incremented plugin version on dev branch.
+* [CB-5980](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5980) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.4.1
+* [CB-5588](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5588) Docs for upload headers.
+* [CB-5588](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5588) iOS: Add response headers to upload result
+* [CB-6000](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6000) Nginx rejects Content-Type without a space before "boundary".
+* [CB-4907](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4907) Close stream when we're finished with it
+* Lisa testing pulling in plugins for plugin: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* Lisa testing pulling in plugins for plugin: cordova-plugin-file-transfer
+* [CB-5980](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5980) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.4.1
+* [CB-5365](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5365) Remove unused exception var to prevent warnings?
+* [CB-2421](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2421) explicitly write the bytesSent,responseCode,result to the FileUploadResult pending release of cordova-plugin-file dependency, added some sanity checks for callbacks
+* iOS: Update for new file plugin api
+* [CB-5631](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5631) Removed SimpleTrackingInputStream.read(byte[] buffer)
+* [CB-5762](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5762) android: Fix lengthComputable set wrong for gzip downloads
+* [CB-4899](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4899) [BlackBerry10] Improve binary file transfer download
+* Delete stale test/ directory
+* [CB-5722](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5722) [BlackBerry10] Update upload function to use native file object
+* [CB-5658](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5658) Update license comment formatting of doc/index.md
+* [CB-5658](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5658) Add doc.index.md for File Transfer plugin
+* [CB-5658](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5658) Delete stale snapshot of plugin docs
+* Remove @1 designation from file plugin dependency until pushed to npm
+* [CB-5466](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5466) Update to work with filesystem URLs
+* [CB-5565](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5565) Incremented plugin version on dev branch.
+* [CB-5565](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5565) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.4.0
+* [CB-5466](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5466) Partial revert; we're not ready yet for FS urls
+* add ubuntu platform
+* [CB-5466](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5466) Minor version bump
+* [CB-5466](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5466) Update FileTransfer plugin to accept filesystem urls
+* Added amazon-fireos platform. Change to use amazon-fireos as the platform if the user agen string contains 'cordova-amazon-fireos'
+* [CB-5188](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5188)
+* [CB-5188](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5188) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.3.4
+* [CB-5128](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5128) added repo + issue tag to plugin.xml for file transfer plugin
+* [CB-5010](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5010) Incremented plugin version on dev branch.
+* [CB-5010](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5010) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.3.3
+* removed un-needed undef check
+* Fix missing headers in Windows 8 upload proxy
+* Fix missing headers in Windows 8 Proxy
+* Fix Windows 8 HTMLAnchorElement return host:80 which force Basic Auth Header to replace options Auth Header
+* [CB-4915](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4915) Incremented plugin version on dev branch.
+* removed un-needed undef check
+* Merge branch 'fix-win8' of https://github.com/Touchit/cordova-plugin-file-transfer into dev
+* [CB-4915](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4915) Updated version and RELEASENOTES.md for release 0.3.2
+* [CB-4889](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4889) bumping&resetting version
+* [windows8] commandProxy was moved
+* [CB-4889](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4889) updating core references
+* [CB-4889](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4889) renaming org.apache.cordova.core.file-transfer to org.apache.cordova.file-transfer and updating dependency
+* Rename CHANGELOG.md -> RELEASENOTES.md
+* fixing base64 helper function clobber for wp7 [CB-4668](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4668) fixing FileTransfer code to work in wp7 and be safe for headers which contain ':'
+* fixed merge anomaly error
+* add atob+btoa for wp7 only fixes FileTransfer issues
+* Add empty CHANGELOG.md
+* [CB-4752](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4752) Incremented plugin version on dev branch.
+* [CB-4668](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4668) updating WP7 definition to use same code as WP8
+* [CB-4668](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4668) WP8 FileTransfer works with the standard JS implementation. Fixing error in parsing of HTTP params which causes sub-JSON objects to not work
+* updated namespace, name tag and readme
+* [wp8] added progress events and fixed failing tests
+* [CB-4595](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4595) updated version
+* [CB-4480](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4480) Fix up a couple Unsigned->Signed mistakes from previous commit.
+* [CB-4480](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4480) Using 64 bit ints to store file size
+* [CB-4417](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4417) Move cordova-plugin-file-transfer to its own Java package.
+* Fix NPE in mobile-spec Upload of an unknown host test.
+* updated namespace, name tag and readme
+* [plugin.xml] adding android namespace
+* [plugin.xml] standardizing license + meta
+* [license] adding apache license file
+* fixed dependency subdir=/* wrong subdir specification.
+* [Windows8][CB-4442] Added windows 8 support
+* updating plugin.xml with registry data
+* [CB-4367](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4367) Explicit AssetsLibrary.framework dependency should be specified for some core plugins
+
 ### 1.6.0 (Sep 08, 2016)
 * [CB-11795](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11795) Add 'protective' entry to cordovaDependencies
 * [CB-9022](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9022) Fix exception thrown by call to `remapApi` on main thread
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6c24249..72eb6bf 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "cordova-plugin-file-transfer",
-  "version": "1.6.1-dev",
+  "version": "1.6.1",
   "description": "Cordova File Transfer Plugin",
   "cordova": {
     "id": "cordova-plugin-file-transfer",
diff --git a/plugin.xml b/plugin.xml
index 6b2323c..e77d9cc 100644
--- a/plugin.xml
+++ b/plugin.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 <plugin xmlns="http://apache.org/cordova/ns/plugins/1.0"
     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     id="cordova-plugin-file-transfer"
-    version="1.6.1-dev">
+    version="1.6.1">
     <name>File Transfer</name>
     <description>Cordova File Transfer Plugin</description>
     <license>Apache 2.0</license>
diff --git a/tests/plugin.xml b/tests/plugin.xml
index f537907..b80ac53 100644
--- a/tests/plugin.xml
+++ b/tests/plugin.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 <plugin xmlns="http://apache.org/cordova/ns/plugins/1.0"
     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     id="cordova-plugin-file-transfer-tests"
-    version="1.6.1-dev">
+    version="1.6.1">
     <name>Cordova File Transfer Plugin Tests</name>
     <license>Apache 2.0</license>