9.3. Regressions in 6.1 LTS

The following regressions were introduced in Connext 6.1 LTS, which is a culmination of releases 6.1.2, 6.1.1, and 6.1.0.

• 9.3.1. Introduced in 6.1.1/6.1.2
  • 9.3.1.1. Core Libraries
    • 9.3.1.1.1. A reliable writer’s FlowController fails to control the data flow over UDPv4 for a SHMEM_REF type
    • 9.3.1.1.2. Stack smashing error when serializing strings with RTI_CDR_SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE set to 16 in C++11 in release mode using GCC compiler
    • 9.3.1.1.3. Reliable DataReader may stop receiving samples from DataWriter using durable writer history and DDS fragmentation
    • 9.3.1.1.4. Thread names longer than 15 characters on QNX platforms cause errors in API calls
    • 9.3.1.1.5. Unexpected precondition error with debug libraries on a reliable DataWriter while sending a GAP
    • 9.3.1.1.6. Unexpected warning during discovery when multicast disabled
  • 9.3.1.2. Security Plugins
    • 9.3.1.2.1. Lack of origin authentication leads to unnecessary allocation and possible discovery failure
    • 9.3.1.2.2. Potential crash while decoding protected submessages
    • 9.3.1.2.3. Potential precondition error when removing a remote DomainParticipant that has secure endpoints
  • 9.3.1.3. Persistence Service
    • 9.3.1.3.1. Vulnerability: Stack buffer write overflow while parsing malicious environment variable on non-Windows systems
    • 9.3.1.3.2. Rare non-recoverable failure when acknowledging samples and committing transactions with non-zero <writer_ack_period> and <writer_checkpoint_period>
  • 9.3.1.4. Limited Bandwidth Plugins
    • 9.3.1.4.1. Limited Bandwidth ZRTPS transport crashes if an external compression library fails to load
• 9.3.2. Introduced in 6.1.0
  • 9.3.2.1. Core Libraries
    • 9.3.2.1.1. Possible to create a DomainParticipant in a DomainID > 232 without getting error or warning
    • 9.3.2.1.2. History depth not honored after instance transitions from NOT_ALIVE to ALIVE state
    • 9.3.2.1.3. Memory leak in DataWriter when matching reliable DataReader
    • 9.3.2.1.4. Segmentation fault if application runs out of memory while generating a log message
    • 9.3.2.1.5. Possible memory leak when initializing and finalizing the DomainParticipantFactory concurrently
    • 9.3.2.1.6. max_samples resource limit not honored in some cases when using an unkeyed Topic and TopicQueries
    • 9.3.2.1.7. DomainParticipant with non-default metatraffic_transport_priority QoS does not complete discovery
    • 9.3.2.1.8. Broken communication when DataWriter with transport priority discovers DataReader with multicast receive address
    • 9.3.2.1.9. No more than 100 asynchronous publisher threads can be created
    • 9.3.2.1.10. Linking static Linux or QNX libraries with object files built with -fPIC will fail
    • 9.3.2.1.11. Invalid serialization of samples with types containing nested structures with primitive members that require padding
    • 9.3.2.1.12. Significant performance degradation when using MultiChannel DataWriters
    • 9.3.2.1.13. Significant performance regression on Windows when using OpenSSL 1.1.1 libraries in 6.1.0
    • 9.3.2.1.14. ReadCondition may incorrectly stay enabled after sample in READ sample state removed from the DataReader’s queue
    • 9.3.2.1.15. Missing SampleInfo.ReceptionTimestamp property (C# API only)
    • 9.3.2.1.16. Source code bundle missing critical piece of code related to UDP multicast support
    • 9.3.2.1.17. Significant performance regression on Windows systems when using OpenSSL 1.1.1k libraries provided in 6.1.0
    • 9.3.2.1.18. Support removed for ARMv8 and x64 processors, cxx and gpp compilers, for QNX platform
    • 9.3.2.1.19. Support removed for ARMv8 Linux architecture
  • 9.3.2.2. Code Generator
    • 9.3.2.2.1. Generated code may contain mixed line breaks
    • 9.3.2.2.2. @default annotation for wstring members in C++11 is not applied
    • 9.3.2.2.3. Java subscriber may not preserve union discriminator value, when discriminator is enum
    • 9.3.2.2.4. Compile-time error when using -constructor with types containing sequence of pointers
    • 9.3.2.2.5. Invalid serialization of samples with types containing nested structures with primitive members that require padding
    • 9.3.2.2.6. Invalid code generated for unions in C++98
  • 9.3.2.3. Admin Console
    • 9.3.2.3.1. High CPU usage by Admin Console
    • 9.3.2.3.2. Admin Console does not correctly delete Publisher and Subscriber entities
  • 9.3.2.4. TLS Support
    • 9.3.2.4.1. hello_world_tcp example root and intermediate CAs expire too early
    • 9.3.2.4.2. Significant performance regression on Windows when using OpenSSL 1.1.1 libraries in 6.1.0
  • 9.3.2.5. Security Plugins
    • 9.3.2.5.1. Significant performance regression on Windows when using OpenSSL 1.1.1 libraries in 6.1.0
    • 9.3.2.5.2. use_530_partitions incorrectly allowed any non-empty partitions
    • 9.3.2.5.3. Permissions document incorrectly disallows unescaped special characters in a subject name
  • 9.3.2.6. Routing Service
    • 9.3.2.6.1. Routing Service Socket Adapter example does not properly resolve hostname
    • 9.3.2.6.2. Crash in Routing Service executable when providing the same -Dname=value pair twice
  • 9.3.2.7. Recording Service
    • 9.3.2.7.1. <content_filter> tags do not work for Topic groups
    • 9.3.2.7.2. Exception reported when recording or replaying type registered as a union
    • 9.3.2.7.3. Replay Service’s Monitoring ServicePeriodic topic shows wrong timestamp
  • 9.3.2.8. Cloud Discovery Service
    • 9.3.2.8.1. Restricting domains using command-line arguments requires use of both -allowDomain and -denyDomain arguments