2. Upgrading from 6.1.2 to 7.3.0

See Important: How to Use this Guide, if you haven’t already.

The following sections describe how to upgrade from Connext 6.1.2 to Connext 7.3.0. Upgrade considerations are the same whether you are upgrading from 6.1.1 or 6.1.2.

• 2.1. General Compatibility 7.3.0
  • 2.1.1. Wire Compatibility
    • 2.1.1.1. New default RTPS checksum mechanism
• 2.2. Product-Specific Compatibility 7.3.0
  • 2.2.1. RTI Connext Core Libraries
    • 2.2.1.1. Deprecations or Removals
    • 2.2.1.2. API Compatibility
    • 2.2.1.3. Configuration Changes
    • 2.2.1.4. Logging Changes
    • 2.2.1.5. Library Size
    • 2.2.1.6. Memory Consumption
    • 2.2.1.7. Network Performance
    • 2.2.1.8. Discovery Performance
    • 2.2.1.9. Transport Compatibility
    • 2.2.1.10. Other Changes
  • 2.2.2. Security Plugins
    • 2.2.2.1. Deprecations or Removals
    • 2.2.2.2. API Compatibility
    • 2.2.2.3. Changes to Building an Application
    • 2.2.2.4. Changes to Shipped Examples
    • 2.2.2.5. Configuration Changes
    • 2.2.2.6. Logging Changes
    • 2.2.2.7. Performance and Scalability
    • 2.2.2.8. Wire Compatibility
  • 2.2.3. RTI TLS Support
    • 2.2.3.1. OpenSSL 3.0 upgrade and 1.1.1 removal
    • 2.2.3.2. Deprecated tls.cipher.dh_param_files
    • 2.2.3.3. New OpenSSL 3 requirement on tls.cipher.cipher_list
  • 2.2.4. RTI Infrastructure Services
    • 2.2.4.1. Use <domain_participant_qos> tag instead of <participant_qos> tag to be compliant with DDS-XML specification
    • 2.2.4.2. Removals in Cloud Discovery Service
    • 2.2.4.3. Persistence Service
  • 2.2.5. RTI Tools
    • 2.2.5.1. Secure BuiltinLoggingTopic renamed to BuiltinLoggingTypeV2
  • 2.2.6. RTI System Designer
    • 2.2.6.1. XML files from 6.1.2 or earlier may not load in release 7.3.0
    • 2.2.6.2. Renamed shared_secret_algorithm to key_establishment_algorithm
  • 2.2.7. RTI Limited Bandwidth Endpoint Discovery Plugin
  • 2.2.8. RTI Connext Micro
    • 2.2.8.1. Connext Micro 3 not compatible with DDS-level fragmentation in Connext Professional 7
    • 2.2.8.2. Connext Professional DataWriter not compatible with Connext Micro/Cert DataReader under certain conditions