2.2. Upgrading from 6.1.2 to 7.2.0

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 7.2.0
  • 2.2.1.1. Wire Compatibility
    • 2.2.1.1.1. New default RTPS checksum mechanism
• 2.2.2. Product-Specific Compatibility 7.2.0
  • 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. Transport Compatibility
    • 2.2.2.1.4. API Compatibility
    • 2.2.2.1.5. Library Size
    • 2.2.2.1.6. Memory Consumption
    • 2.2.2.1.7. Network Performance
    • 2.2.2.1.8. Discovery Performance
    • 2.2.2.1.9. Configuration Changes
  • 2.2.2.2. RTI Code Generator
    • 2.2.2.2.1. C# code generation for optional sequences not supported
  • 2.2.2.3. Security Plugins
    • 2.2.2.3.1. Changes to building an application
    • 2.2.2.3.2. API Compatibility
    • 2.2.2.3.3. Updated shipped examples to support different cryptographic libraries
    • 2.2.2.3.4. Wire Compatibility
    • 2.2.2.3.5. Configuration Changes
  • 2.2.2.4. RTI TLS Support
    • 2.2.2.4.1. OpenSSL 3.0 upgrade and 1.1.1 removal
    • 2.2.2.4.2. Deprecated tls.cipher.dh_param_files
    • 2.2.2.4.3. New OpenSSL 3 requirement on tls.cipher.cipher_list
  • 2.2.2.5. RTI Infrastructure Services
    • 2.2.2.5.1. Use <domain_participant_qos> tag instead of <participant_qos> tag to be compliant with DDS-XML specification
    • 2.2.2.5.2. Removals in Cloud Discovery Service
    • 2.2.2.5.3. Persistence Service
  • 2.2.2.6. RTI Tools
    • 2.2.2.6.1. Secure BuiltinLoggingTopic renamed to BuiltinLoggingTypeV2
  • 2.2.2.7. RTI System Designer
    • 2.2.2.7.1. XML files from 6.1.2 or earlier may not load in release 7
    • 2.2.2.7.2. Renamed shared_secret_algorithm to key_establishment_algorithm
  • 2.2.2.8. RTI Limited Bandwidth Endpoint Discovery Plugin
  • 2.2.2.9. RTI Connext Micro
    • 2.2.2.9.1. Connext Micro 3 not compatible with DDS-level fragmentation in Connext 7