blog: cordova-fetch 5.0.0 release (#1433)

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+layout: post
+author:
+    name: Bryan Ellis
+title:  "Cordova Fetch 5.0.0 Released!"
+categories: announcements
+tags: news releases
+---
+
+We are happy to announce that `[email protected]` has been released. This is the library used behind-the-scenes of the Cordova tooling for fetching of Cordova platforms and plugins.
+
+## Release Highlights
+
+The most notable changes in this major release were:
+
+- Updated the library's npm dependencies.
+- Increased in the Node.js engine requirement to `>=20.9.0`.
+
+<!--more-->
+# Changes include:
+
+**Breaking Changes:**
+
+* [GH-131](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/131) chore(npm)!: bump `[email protected]`
+* [GH-125](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/125) chore!: bump node requirement & npm dependencies
+
+**Chores:**
+
+* [GH-136](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/136) chore(README): update badges
+* [GH-135](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/135) chore: update & add source code license headers
+* [GH-130](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/130) chore: bump `@cordova/eslint-config`
+* [GH-127](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/127) chore(coverage): Move from `nyc` to `c8` for code coverage
+* [GH-124](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/124) chore(deps-dev): bump `brace-expansion` from 1.1.11 to 1.1.12
+* [GH-122](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/122) chore(deps): bump `cross-spawn` from 7.0.3 to 7.0.6
+* [GH-120](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/120) chore(deps): bump `micromatch` from 4.0.5 to 4.0.8
+* [GH-119](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/119) chore(deps): bump `braces` from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3
+* [GH-116](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/116) chore(deps): Update some dependencies, add Node 20 to CI
+
+**CI:**
+
+* [GH-137](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/137) ci: workflow updates
+* [GH-128](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/128) ci(workflow): update release-audit & license config
+* [GH-123](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/123) ci: Add licence checker workflow
+* [GH-121](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/121) ci: Fix dependabot code scanning errors
+* [GH-118](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/118) ci: Set up CodeQL analysis
+* [GH-117](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/117) ci: update codecov@v4 w/ token
+
+**Tests:**
+
+* [GH-126](https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/126) test: drop `file-url`