cordova-android/guides/Cordova Upgrade Guide.md

# Cordova Upgrade Guide #

This document is for people who need to upgrade their Cordova versions from an older version to a current version of Cordova.

- To upgrade to 1.8.0, please go from 1.7.0
- To upgrade from 1.7.0, please go from 1.6.0

## Upgrade to 1.8.0 from 1.7.0 ##

1. Remove cordova-1.7.0.jar from the libs directory in your project
2. Add cordova-1.8.0.jar to the libs directory in your project
3. If you are using Eclipse, please refresh your eclipse project and do a clean
4. Copy the new cordova-1.7.0.js into your project
5. Update your HTML to use the new cordova-1.7.0.js file
6. Update the res/xml/plugins.xml to be the same as the one found in framework/res/xml/plugins.xml


## Upgrade to 1.7.0 from 1.6.0 ##

1. Remove cordova-1.6.0.jar from the libs directory in your project
2. Add cordova-1.6.0.jar to the libs directory in your project
3. If you are using Eclipse, please refresh your eclipse project and do a clean
4. Copy the new cordova-1.6.0.js into your project
5. Update your HTML to use the new cordova-1.6.0.js file
6. Update the res/xml/plugins.xml to be the same as the one found in framework/res/xml/plugins.xml