This release is needed for the browser platform release. Some notable changes: * Removed Q dependency in favor of native javascript promises. * Changed default behavior of which browser is launched during serve. Now the serve command will use the system default browser instead of opening a new instance of chrome. You can still pass in a specific target (like chrome) though [1].
I'm doing this release alongside the browser@5 release. Release Issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13214 [1] https://github.com/apache/cordova-serve#launchbrowser