What's New in 2.4.16
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The following features are new since |me| 2.4.15.

Deprecations and Removals
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This section describes items that are deprecated or removed in |me| 2.4.16,
compared to |me| 2.4.15.

*Deprecated* means that the item is still supported in this release, but will be
removed in a future release. *Removed* means that the item is discontinued or no
longer supported.

Any deprecations or removals noted in RTI's documentation serve as notice under
the Real-Time Innovations, Inc., Maintenance Policy #4220 and/or any other
agreements by and between RTI and customer regarding maintenance and support
of RTI's software. RTI's current standard terms and support and maintenance
policies are available at https://www.rti.com/terms.

.. MICRO-11144

Removed support for specifying locator addresses without a transport prefix
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|me| no longer supports the ability to specify a locator address (such as
``127.0.0.1``) without a transport name prefix. For example, if you
register a transport with the name ``udp`` and for the address ``127.0.0.1``,
you must specify the locator as ``udp://127.0.0.1``. Using a locator address
without a transport name prefix will cause the associated *DomainParticipant* or
endpoint creation to fail and return ``NULL``.