Phonegap 2.7.0 is ready to be released.

The announcement is official since April 29, 2013. So, following the months of hard work ,the upcoming Framework is ready and will be released very soon.

For those who unfamiliar, PhoneGap is a mobile development Frame Work produced by Nitobi and purchased by Adobe System.  This Framework enables software programmers to build applications for mobile

devices using JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3.

This means the resulting applications are hybrid, meaning also that they are neither truly native (because all layout rendering is done via web views instead of the platform's native UI framework) nor purely web-based (because they are not just web apps, but are packaged as apps for distribution).

The "PhoneGap Build" service allows a programmer to upload his source code to a "cloud compiler" that generates apps for every supported platform.

The core of PhoneGap applications use HTML5 and CSS3 for their rendering, and JavaScript for their logic. Using HTML5 alone would prevent the use of underlying hardware such as the accelerometer or GPS, and browser support for HTML5 is not consistent across mobile browsers. To overcome these limitations, the PhoneGap framework embeds HTML5 code inside a native WebView on the device, using a Foreign Function Interface to access the native resources of the device.

However, the use of web-based technologies leads many PhoneGap applications to run slower than native applications with similar functionality.