As you are probably aware, we did two updates in the past couple of weeks. The March 30 update, build 1878, was a regular update to fix a number of open issues. This one today, build 1912, is to address some regressions with that update. Not what we had planned. From all of us in the Intel® XDK team, our apologies for having to give you another update so quickly. Fortunately, we do know exactly why and how the regressions happened and are correcting our development and testing processes appropriately.
So, what’s in this update?
- Bug-fixes – that’s it. We fixed the Cordova* plugins regressions – selecting/unselecting the standard Cordova plugins and the intel.xdk plugins, a problem with selecting 3rd-party plugins, issues with ajax calls, and an issue with the Emulator giving a 404 error when it couldn’t find the index.html file. There was also a firewall proxy problem a few users reported on OS X* that we fixed. There were a few others, check the Release Notes to see if we fixed the problems you may have. If you don’t see it there, please make sure you visit our user forums.
- Also, we continued to improve the secure, single sign-on support we released earlier in March, allowing your Intel XDK login to work with the user forums on the Intel Developer Zone. There were a few issues with non-English characters in user names that we resolved.
Cordova* changes coming!
Now, an important note about Apache* Cordova*. We are a big fan, supporter, and contributor to the Apache Cordova project – it is doing a great service to mobile app developers in helping get access to native functionality in a standard way. It also moves very fast, which is important given the rapidly changing nature of web development and web technologies. As a tools vendor for HTML5 and one which views Cordova support as central to the core value of the product – the Intel XDK’s cross-platform support – we have to move very quickly as well to ensure we can offer new Cordova functionality as soon as it is ready. It is challenging to stay up to date, but it is something we must do.
Cordova 5.0 is being released this Summer. It is a big change in that plugins will become node packages, adopting the NPM naming conventions, and the plugins registry will be going away as of this Fall. App developers will need to be aware of the changes to how to integrate plugins, and the new names; We intend to support 5.0 fully and will have releases in the Summer for it to continue to make it as easy as possible to add plugins into apps. We’ll also be looking at ways to preview apps with plugins (coming soon!). But, primarily, we want to make sure you are aware of the changes coming up so you can prepare. Please let us know if you have any questions. We’ll keep info on Cordova 5.0 on our user forums and website over the coming months.
Please provide us feedback on our User Forum as to what or how you would like to see us help the Cordova project and your app development.
We greatly appreciate your feedback and comments in the user forums and in private. Please keep them coming!
Joe
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