Github user sgrebnov commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs/pull/411#discussion_r43977459 --- Diff: www/_posts/2015-11-04-tools-release.md --- @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +--- +layout: post +author: + name: Steve Gill + url: https://twitter.com/stevesgill +title: "Tools Release: November 4th, 2015" +categories: news +tags: release tools +--- +New versions of cordova tools are now live! + +* [cordova-lib@5.4.0](https://www.npmjs.org/package/cordova-lib) +* [cordova@5.4.0](https://www.npmjs.org/package/cordova) +* [plugman@1.0.5](https://www.npmjs.org/package/plugman) +* [cordova-js@4.1.2](https://www.npmjs.org/package/cordova-js) + +Release highlights: + +* Fixed issues with using **Node 4 & 5** and **npm 3**. +* Cordova will now auto convert old-style plugin IDs to new style plugin IDs when doing a `cordova plugin add`. This only happens if the old-style plugin ID exists in the [registry-mapper](https://github.com/stevengill/cordova-registry-mapper), it will be auto converted to the new ID and fetched from [npm](https://www.npmjs.com) instead. +* Cordova `CLI` will now know if a newer version is available and will prompt users to update. +* Some core utility methods from `cordova-lib` have been moved into a new module named [`cordova-common`](https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/tree/master/cordova-commo://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/tree/master/cordova-common). `cordova-common` is shared among `cordova-lib` and cordova platforms. + +To update your tools: + + * If you have `cordova` installed: + + npm install -g cordova@latest + + * If you have `plugman` installed: + + npm install -g plugman@latest + +<!--more--> +# Changes include: + +## Platform updates +When adding these platforms to your project, the following versions are now used by default. +These platform versions were released recently, and the tools' defaults were updated: --- End diff -- I don't think pinned iOS version has been changed since last release
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