4. Upgrading from 5.3.1 to 6.0.0

See Upgrade Path and Upgrade Overview, if you haven’t already.

• 4.1. General Compatibility 6.0.0
  • 4.1.1. Platforms
  • 4.1.2. Wire Compatibility
    • 4.1.2.1. RTPS Versions
    • 4.1.2.2. New default GUID generation mode
    • 4.1.2.3. Default shared memory locator has changed
    • 4.1.2.4. 4.2e alignment option deprecated
    • 4.1.2.5. Changed wire representation of TypeObject
    • 4.1.2.6. TypeCode information is not sent by default
  • 4.1.3. Reliability Protocol
    • 4.1.3.1. Changes in behavior of write() operation with KEEP_LAST configuration
  • 4.1.4. Type System Compatibility
    • 4.1.4.1. Migration to Extended CDR encoding version 2 (XCDR2)
      • 4.1.4.1.1. Overview
      • 4.1.4.1.2. Known Issues
    • 4.1.4.2. Changed wire representation of TypeObject
    • 4.1.4.3. TypeCode information is not sent by default
    • 4.1.4.4. Unbounded sequences and strings in XML type representation
    • 4.1.4.5. wchar and wstring language binding changes
    • 4.1.4.6. Properties dds.type_consistency.ignore_member_names and dds.type_consistency.ignore_sequence_bounds have been deprecated
  • 4.1.5. Transport Compatibility
    • 4.1.5.1. Default shared memory locator has changed
    • 4.1.5.2. VxWorks shared-memory transport compatibility
  • 4.1.6. XML Compatibility
    • 4.1.6.1. QoS Profile multiple inheritance
    • 4.1.6.2. XSD issues
  • 4.1.7. Other Compatibility Issues
    • 4.1.7.1. Behavior change when retrieving QoS using topic_name (when there are multiple matching QoSes)
• 4.2. Product-Specific Compatibility 6.0.0
  • 4.2.1. RTI Connext DDS Core Libraries
    • 4.2.1.1. APIs
      • 4.2.1.1.1. Wchar and wstring language binding changes
      • 4.2.1.1.2. Dynamic Data compatibility issues
    • 4.2.1.2. Generated Code
      • 4.2.1.2.1. Changed modern C++ default IDL mapping
    • 4.2.1.3. QoS
      • 4.2.1.3.1. Properties dds.type_consistency.ignore_member_names and dds.type_consistency.ignore_sequence_bounds have been deprecated
    • 4.2.1.4. Library Size
    • 4.2.1.5. Memory Consumption
    • 4.2.1.6. Performance
    • 4.2.1.7. RTI Connext DDS Micro Compatibility
  • 4.2.2. RTI Security Plugins
    • 4.2.2.1. Configuration
      • 4.2.2.1.1. Changed Authentication and Access Control property names
      • 4.2.2.1.2. Changed default Persistence Service “dds.data_writer.history.key_material_key”
      • 4.2.2.1.3. Changed Persistence Service encryption algorithm
      • 4.2.2.1.4. Changed matching behavior of allowed partitions condition
      • 4.2.2.1.5. Change to mutability of Publisher PartitionQosPolicy
      • 4.2.2.1.6. New protection for Builtin Logging Topic
    • 4.2.2.2. Wire Compatibility
      • 4.2.2.2.1. Participants and endpoints using inconsistent security configuration do not communicate
    • 4.2.2.3. APIs
      • 4.2.2.3.1. Changes in DDS types and definitions
      • 4.2.2.3.2. Changes in APIs
      • 4.2.2.3.3. get_datawriter_sec_attributes and get_datareader_sec_attributes must support receiving builtin topic names
  • 4.2.3. RTI Secure WAN Transport
  • 4.2.4. RTI TLS Support
  • 4.2.5. RTI Ada Language Support
    • 4.2.5.1. APIs
      • 4.2.5.1.1. Write_W_Params requires its DDS.WriteParams_T argument to be modifiable
      • 4.2.5.1.2. Wide character representation change
  • 4.2.6. RTI Code Generator
    • 4.2.6.1. Removed -stl Option
    • 4.2.6.2. Removed Support for -notypecode
    • 4.2.6.3. Removed -use42eAlignment
    • 4.2.6.4. Generated code for Extended CDR Encoding Version 2 (XCDR2)
    • 4.2.6.5. Incorrect TypeCode name for member fields whose name was a keyword in Java
    • 4.2.6.6. Modified maximum length of sequences and strings when -unboundedSupport is not used, when converting to XML
    • 4.2.6.7. Traditional C++ compiled with -fno-exceptions
    • 4.2.6.8. Support for new, standard IDL, fixed-width integer types
    • 4.2.6.9. Change in default optimization level for code generation
  • 4.2.7. RTI Connext DDS Micro
    • 4.2.7.1. New Installation Procedure
    • 4.2.7.2. Change In Documentation
    • 4.2.7.3. Application Binary Interface
    • 4.2.7.4. APIs
      • 4.2.7.4.1. Wchar and wstring language binding changes
      • 4.2.7.4.2. RTI_CERT compilation flag not supported in this release
      • 4.2.7.4.3. Generated code compatibility
      • 4.2.7.4.4. Default UDP socket buffer size on QNX changed to 64KB
    • 4.2.7.5. Connext DDS Compatibility
  • 4.2.8. RTI Routing Service
    • 4.2.8.1. Application Binary Interface
      • 4.2.8.1.1. Service Library
      • 4.2.8.1.2. Infrastructure Library
    • 4.2.8.2. APIs
      • 4.2.8.2.1. Adapter API
      • 4.2.8.2.2. Service API
    • 4.2.8.3. Configuration
      • 4.2.8.3.1. XSD compatibility
      • 4.2.8.3.2. XML Validation
    • 4.2.8.4. Administration and Monitoring
      • 4.2.8.4.1. New models
      • 4.2.8.4.2. “Ignore” warnings
    • 4.2.8.5. QoS
    • 4.2.8.6. Performance
    • 4.2.8.7. Library Size
    • 4.2.8.8. Documentation
  • 4.2.9. RTI Recording Service
    • 4.2.9.1. APIs
    • 4.2.9.2. Configuration
    • 4.2.9.3. Database Format
      • 4.2.9.3.1. How to Convert a Legacy Database
      • 4.2.9.3.2. How to Replay a Legacy Database
    • 4.2.9.4. Running Recording Service 5.3.1
    • 4.2.9.5. Documentation
  • 4.2.10. RTI Persistence Service
    • 4.2.10.1. External Database Compatibility
    • 4.2.10.2. Persistent Storage (Database) Format Compatibility
    • 4.2.10.3. Persistence Storage (Database) Locking Compatibility
    • 4.2.10.4. Dynamically Linked Libraries
  • 4.2.11. RTI Database Integration Service
    • 4.2.11.1. Database Compatibility
  • 4.2.12. RTI Cloud Discovery Service
  • 4.2.13. RTI Launcher
    • 4.2.13.1. Configuration
      • 4.2.13.1.1. Custom buttons
      • 4.2.13.1.2. New GTK+ dependency
  • 4.2.14. RTI Administration Console
    • 4.2.14.1. New Default GUID Generator Mode
    • 4.2.14.2. New GTK+ and Cairo Dependencies
    • 4.2.14.3. Connext DDS Micro Compatibility
  • 4.2.15. RTI Monitor
  • 4.2.16. RTI Utilities
    • 4.2.16.1. Dynamically Linked Libraries