2.2. Upgrading from 6.1.1/6.1.2 to 7.1.0

See Important: How to Use this Guide, if you haven’t already. Upgrade considerations are the same whether you are upgrading from 6.1.1 or 6.1.2.

• 2.2.1. General Compatibility 7.1.0
• 2.2.2. Product-Specific Compatibility 7.1.0
  • 2.2.2.1. RTI Connext Core Libraries
    • 2.2.2.1.1. Durable writer history, durable reader state, and Persistence Service no longer support external databases
    • 2.2.2.1.2. Configuration Changes
    • 2.2.2.1.3. API Compatibility
    • 2.2.2.1.4. Library Size
    • 2.2.2.1.5. Memory Consumption
    • 2.2.2.1.6. Network Performance
    • 2.2.2.1.7. Discovery Performance
  • 2.2.2.2. RTI Code Generator
    • 2.2.2.2.1. C# code generation for optional sequences not supported
  • 2.2.2.3. RTI System Designer
    • 2.2.2.3.1. XML files from 6.1.2 or earlier may not load in release 7
    • 2.2.2.3.2. Renamed shared_secret_algorithm to key_establishment_algorithm
  • 2.2.2.4. RTI Security Plugins
    • 2.2.2.4.1. Changes to building an application
    • 2.2.2.4.2. OpenSSL upgrade
    • 2.2.2.4.3. wolfSSL upgrade
    • 2.2.2.4.4. Updated shipped examples to support different cryptographic libraries
    • 2.2.2.4.5. Wire Compatibility
    • 2.2.2.4.6. Configuration
  • 2.2.2.5. RTI TLS Support
    • 2.2.2.5.1. OpenSSL upgrade
    • 2.2.2.5.2. Deprecated tls.cipher.dh_param_files
    • 2.2.2.5.3. New OpenSSL 3 requirement on tls.cipher.cipher_list
  • 2.2.2.6. RTI Infrastructure Services
    • 2.2.2.6.1. Use <domain_participant_qos> tag instead of <participant_qos> tag to be compliant with DDS-XML specification
    • 2.2.2.6.2. Removals in Cloud Discovery Service
    • 2.2.2.6.3. Persistence Service
  • 2.2.2.7. RTI Limited Bandwidth Endpoint Discovery Plugin
  • 2.2.2.8. RTI Connext Micro
    • 2.2.2.8.1. Connext Micro 3.0.3 installation package currently compatible only with Connext 6.0.1 installer
    • 2.2.2.8.2. Connext Micro 3 not compatible with DDS-level fragmentation in Connext 7