2. Upgrading from 7.4.0 to 7.5.0

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

The following sections describe how to upgrade from Connext 7.4.0 to Connext 7.5.0.

• 2.1. General Compatibility 7.5.0
  • 2.1.1. Wire Compatibility
    • 2.1.1.1. DataReader in 7.5.0 may not interoperate with DataWriter in previous release when using XCDR and mutable unions
    • 2.1.1.2. New requirement if you interoperate with DDS vendors that produce multiple RTPS messages in a single datagram
• 2.2. Product-Specific Compatibility 7.5.0
  • 2.2.1. RTI Connext Core Libraries
    • 2.2.1.1. Incompatibility between Python API and other APIs when using int8 type
    • 2.2.1.2. New discovery protocol APIs for RPC and Request-Reply in Python
    • 2.2.1.3. Changed C function signatures could cause signed/unsigned warnings when compiling application code
  • 2.2.2. RTI Security Plugins
    • 2.2.2.1. Configuration Changes
    • 2.2.2.2. SDK Changes
  • 2.2.3. RTI Persistence Service
    • 2.2.3.1. Creation of Persistence Service instance using Persistence Service library will change DomainParticipantFactoryQos settings by default
  • 2.2.4. RTI Connext Observability Framework
    • 2.2.4.1. Optionally disable distribution and collection of remote debugging data