Are Your Plugins Out of Date?

We’ve quietly introduced a new feature - outdated plugin checking. It appears at the end of the log on jobs which fail:

Package                       Current  Wanted  Latest  Location
cordova-android                 9.1.0   9.1.0  10.1.2  node_modules/cordova-android
cordova-plugin-camera           5.0.3   5.0.3   6.0.0  node_modules/cordova-plugin-camera
cordova-plugin-file             6.0.2   6.0.2   7.0.0  node_modules/cordova-plugin-file
cordova-plugin-media            5.0.4   5.0.4   6.0.0  node_modules/cordova-plugin-media
cordova-plugin-media-capture    3.0.3   3.0.3   4.0.0  node_modules/cordova-plugin-media-capture

In the above example, 5 plugins are using outdated versions. This can cause a variety of problems - it’s good practice to keep your plugins up to date.

To fix this, look at your config.xml file. The version of the plugin used depends on two things:

• What version did you set the plugin spec to?
• What is the highest version the engine you have selected can use?

In this example, the camera plugin is declared in config,xml without a version:

  <plugin name="cordova-plugin-camera" source="npm" />

Which means use the latest supported version. To explicitly set the version (it’s good practice), do the following:

  <plugin name="cordova-plugin-camera" source="npm" spec="5.0.3" />

So why it is using 5.0.3 instead of 6.0.0? It’s due to this line:

Package                       Current  Wanted  Latest
cordova-android                 9.1.0   9.1.0  10.1.2

The project is using an old version of the Android engine (9.1.0), which does not support version 6 of cordova-plugin-camera.

You should update your project to the current version of the engine. The other outdated packages will then be updated automatically.

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