Release Notes

• 1. Supported Platforms
• 2. Compatibility
• 3. What’s New in 4.7.0
  • 3.1. Generated examples provide better starting point with common data pattern QoS profiles
  • 3.2. Code Generator enables Protocol Buffers integration with DDS
  • 3.3. Third-Party software changes
• 4. What’s Fixed in 4.7.0
  • 4.1. [Major] Minimal example in Modern C++11 did not have default QoS *
  • 4.2. [Major] try_construct annotation caused code generation errors for sequences
  • 4.3. [Major] Could not use a struct derived from an alias as the type of a member of another type
  • 4.4. [Major] Using //@resolve-name false did not avoid resolution when a constant was used as a size for an array, sequence bound, string bound, or wstring bound
  • 4.5. [Major] Alias of wstring collections may not have allocated enough memory if //@resolve-name false was present
  • 4.6. [Minor] Incorrect generated code for interfaces with anonymous sequences
  • 4.7. [Minor] rtiddsgen showed a false positive error in Modern C++ and RPC
  • 4.8. [Minor] serialVersionUID not generated for some Java classes
  • 4.9. [Minor] Code Generator did not detect incompatible IDL file generated from .proto file
  • 4.10. [Trivial] rtiddsgen -help showed wrong information for unbounded support in Ada
• 5. Previous Releases
  • 5.1. What’s New in 4.6.0
  • 5.2. What’s Fixed in 4.6.0
  • 5.3. What’s New in 4.5.0
  • 5.4. What’s Fixed in 4.5.0
  • 5.5. What’s New in 4.4.0
  • 5.6. What’s Fixed in 4.4.0
• 6. Known Issues
  • 6.1. Classes and Types Defined in Some .NET Namespaces Cannot be used to Define User Data Types
  • 6.2. Code Generation for Inline Nested Structures, Unions, and Valuetypes not Supported
  • 6.3. .NET Code Generation for Multi-Dimensional Arrays of Sequences not Supported
  • 6.4. Request and Reply Topics Must be Created with Types Generated by Code Generator—C API Only
  • 6.5. Error Generating Code for Type whose Scope Name Contains Module Called “idl”
  • 6.6. Examples and Generated Code for Visual Studio 2017 and later may not Compile (Error MSB8036)
  • 6.7. Invalid XSD File from an IDL/XML File if Input File Contains a Range Annotation inside a Structure and a typedef of that Structure
  • 6.8. Warnings when Compiling Generated Code for Traditional C++ with -O3 flag and IDL Contains FlatData types
  • 6.9. Recursive Structures not Supported in Python and ADA
  • 6.10. 64-bit Discriminator Values Greater than (2^31-1) or Smaller than (-2^31) not Supported
  • 6.11. Code Generator Performance Degraded After Apache Velocity 2.3 Update
  • 6.12. To Declare Arrays as Optional in Python, They Must be Aliased
  • 6.13. Modern C++ Generated Code from IDL Files that Contain UTF Character Types Cannot be Compiled Using C++20 Standard or Above
• 7. Limitations
  • 7.1. XSD Limitation: Struct with Inheritance can’t have Member with Same Name as a Member in Parent
  • 7.2. Generated Code for Nested Modules in Ada May Not Compile
  • 7.3. Mixing Different Versions of Code Generator Server is not Supported

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