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Forthcoming

Version v3.0.0

  • Rename project to fastdds.
  • Rename environment variable to FASTDDS_DEFAULT_PROFILES_FILE and rename default XML profiles file to FASTDDS_DEFAULT_PROFILES.
  • Remove API marked as deprecated.
  • Removed deprecated FastRTPS API tests.
  • Removed no longer supported FASTRTPS_API_TESTS CMake options.
  • RTPS layer APIs refactor:
    • RTPSReader, ReaderListener, ReaderAttributes:
      • Several methods that were meant for internal use have been removed from public API
      • All public methods now have snake_case names
      • All public attributes now have snake_case names
    • RTPSWriter, WriterListener, WriterAttributes, WriterHistory:
      • The responsibility of managing both the CacheChange and Payload pools has been moved to the WriterHistory.
      • Several methods that were meant for internal use have been removed from public API
      • All public methods now have snake_case names
      • All public attributes now have snake_case names
    • RTPSParticipant:
      • Some methods changed to snake_case: register_reader, register_writer, update_reader, update_writer.
      • Register methods take a TopicDescription instead of TopicAttributes.
      • Update methods no longer take TopicAttributes.
    • Endpoint creation fails if the EntityId is inconsistent with the topic kind.
  • Discovery callbacks refactor:
    • on_participant_discovery now receives a ParticipantDiscoveryStatus and a ParticipantBuiltinTopicData instead of a ParticipantDiscoveryInfo
    • on_data_reader_discovery now receives a ReaderDiscoveryStatus and a SubscriptionBuiltinTopicData instead of a ReaderDiscoveryInfo
    • on_data_writer_discovery now receives a WriterDiscoveryStatus and a PublicationBuiltinTopicData instead of a WriterDiscoveryInfo
  • New methods to get local discovery information:
    • DataWriter::get_publication_builtin_topic_data
    • DataReader::get_subscription_builtin_topic_data
  • Public API that is no longer public:
    • XML Parser API no longer public.
    • ReaderProxyData
    • ReaderDiscoveryInfo
    • WriterProxyData
    • WriterDiscoveryInfo
    • ParticiantProxyData
    • ParticiantDiscoveryInfo
    • ParticipantAttributes
    • ReplierAttributes
    • RequesterAttributes
    • PublisherAttributes
    • SubscriberAttributes
    • TopicAttributes
    • All discovery implementation related API
    • ProxyPool
    • Semaphore
    • MessageReceiver
    • BuiltinProtocols
    • Liveliness implementation related API
    • shared_mutex
    • StringMatching
    • TimeConversion
    • TypeLookupService
    • DBQueue
    • UnitsParser
    • ReaderLocator
    • ReaderProxy
    • ChangeForReader
    • ServerAttributes
  • Public API headers .h have been renamed to .hpp
  • Added create participant methods that use environment XML profile for participant configuration.
  • New TypeObjectRegistry class to register/query TypeObjects/TypeIdentifiers.
  • New TypeObjectUtils class providing API to build and register TypeObjects/TypeIdentifiers.
  • Refactor Dynamic Language Binding API according to OMG XTypes v1.3 specification.
  • Refactor ReturnCode complying with OMG DDS specification.
  • Calling DataReader::return_loan returns ReturnCode_t::RETCODE_OK both for empty sequences and for sequences that were not loaned.
  • Refactor examples:
    • Hello world example with wait-sets and environment XML profiles.
    • X-Types example with dynamic type discovery and Hello world example compatibility.
    • Configuration example that condenses multiple QoS examples. Multiple configurations allowed through argument parsing.
    • Custom content filter example with lower and upper bounds for data based on the index.
    • Custom payload pool example that uses a user-defined payload pool instead of the default
    • Delivery mechanisms example with SHM, UDP, TCP, data-sharing and intra-process mechanisms.
    • Discovery server example.
    • Flow Controller example with FlowControllersQos and property settings.
    • Request-reply example to showcase RPC paradigms over Fast DDS.
    • Security example with environment XML profiles.
    • Static EDP discovery example to avoid EDP meta-traffic.
    • Topic instances example, compatible with ShapesDemo app.
    • RTPS example to show the creation of entities in the RTPS layer.
  • Removed TypeConsistencyQos from DataReader, and included TypeConsistencyEnforcementQosPolicy and DataRepresentationQosPolicy
  • Added new flow_controller_descriptor_list XML configuration, remove ThroughtputController.
  • Migrate #defines within BuiltinEndpoints.hpp to namespaced constexpr variables.
  • Make StdoutErrConsumer the default log consumer.
  • IPayloadPool refactor:
    • payload_owner moved from CacheChange_t to SerializedPayload_t.
    • SerializedPayload_t copies are now forbidden.
    • Refactor of get_payload methods.
  • Use PID_DOMAIN_ID during PDP.
  • Creation of RTPS messages refactor:
    • New Gather-send method is now used by default, avoiding an extra copy during the creation of the RTPS message.
    • New attribute in SendBuffersAllocationAttributes to configure allocation of NetworkBuffer vector.
    • SenderResource and Transport APIs now receive a collection of NetworkBuffer on their send method.
  • Migrate fastrtps namespace to fastdds
  • Migrate fastrtps ResourceManagement API from rtps/resources to rtps/attributes.
  • const qualify all data related inputs in DataWriter APIs
  • New DomainParticipantExtendedQos that includes both DomainId and DomainParticipantQos (extends DomainParticipantFactory API).
  • Make Blackbox tests not include any private API.
  • Remove all the private API include from Blackbox tests.
  • Discovery Server refactor:
    • Clients and Servers no longer need a known GUID to connect between them.
    • Servers are now configured specifying a LocatorList, instead of a RemoteServerAttributes list.
    • Servers connect through a mesh topology. For a new server to join the topology, it must be connected to any server in it.
    • Servers only redirect discovery information of their direct clients.
    • Remote Discovery servers connection list can now be updated and modified at runtime without restrictions.
    • Fast DDS CLI has been updated to allow the creation of servers without GUID.
    • Servers are responsible of answering TypeLookupRequests of others servers when working with X-Types.
    • Backup server is not compatible with X-Types.
  • Refactor in XML Parser to return DynamicTypeBuilder instead of DynamicType
  • Setting vendor_id in the received CacheChange_t for Data and DataFrag.
  • Added new DynamicData to JSON serializer (json_serialize).
  • Added new DynamicType to IDL serializer (idl_serialize).
  • DDS implementation of eprosima::fastdds::Time_t moved to eprosima::fastdds::dds::Time_t.
  • TopicDataType::auto_fill_type_information has been removed in favor of fastdds.type_propagation participant property.
  • Add new custom pid PID_PRODUCT_VERSION.
  • SHM locator kind is now linked to Fast DDS' major version.

Version 2.14.0

  • Added authentication handshake properties.
  • Added methods OpenOutputChannels and CloseOutputChannels to TransportInterface with LocatorSelectorEntry argument.
  • Added netmask_filter, allowlist and blocklist transport configuration options.
  • Added extra configuration options for the builitin transports.
  • Limit the amount of listening ports for TCP servers to 1.

Version 2.13.0

  • Added monitor service feature.
  • Enable configuration of thread setting for all threads.
  • Added the possibility to define a listening port equal to 0 in TCP Transport
  • Added support for TCP to Fast DDS CLI and environment variable
  • Enable Discovery Server example through TCP.
  • Define a discovery server' super client by environment variable.
  • Added the possibility to define interfaces in the whitelist by interface name.
  • Added configuration of builtin transports through DomainParticipantQos, environment variable and XML.
  • Enable support for DataRepresentationQos to select the CDR encoding.

Version 2.12.0

  • Added participant property to configure SHM transport metatraffic behavior. No metatraffic over SHM transport by default.
  • Exposed custom payload pool on DDS endpoints declaration
  • Processing environment variables on XML text
  • Upgrade to support Fast CDR v2.0.0. Default encoding is XCDRv1 to maintain interoperability with previous Fast DDS versions. Some concerns:
    • Data type source code generated with Fast DDS-Gen v2 should be regenerated using Fast DDS-Gen v3.
    • API break. Changed a MEMBER_INVALID identifier from a #define to a constexpr. Although this is not a new major version, using a #define is a bad conduct which was decided to be changed. Note that new constexpr is inside namespace eprosima::fastdds::types.

Version 2.11.0

  • Added Participant ignore local endpoints feature.
  • Remove FASTDDS_STATIC CMake option. Please, use BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF instead.
  • Fixed exported symbols on ContentFilteredTopic (ABI break)
  • Deprecated the DDS:Crypto:AES-GCM-GMAC plugin configuration through the DomainParticipant PropertyPolicyQos (security vulnerability).
  • DomainParticipantListener::on_participant_discovery changed behavior (fix API break in 2.10.0).
  • Included XML schema for static discovery profile configuration.
  • Extend DynamicDataHelper API providing print overload with std::ostream parameter (API extension in Dynamic Types).
  • TypeLookup Service configuration through XML.

Version 2.10.1

  • Added ignore_participant implementation.

Version 2.10.0

  • Enabled secure communications on Discovery Server (ABI break on RTPS layer)
  • Added non-standard DataWriterListener callback on_unacknowledged_sample_removed (API extension on DDS layer).
  • Added RTPSWriter::has_been_delivered virtual method (ABI break on RTPS layer).
  • Refactor StatefulWriter::get_disable_positive_acks as virtual method of RTPSWriter (ABI break on RTPS layer).
  • Network headers made private (ABI break on RTPS layer).
  • Added ignore RTPS entity API in RTPSParticipant (ABI break on RTPS layer).
  • Overload PDP::removeWriterProxyData and PDP::removeReaderProxyData (ABI break on RTPS layer).
  • Overload RTPS discovery callbacks in RTPSParticipantListener (ABI break on RTPS layer).
  • Overload DDS discovery callbacks in DomainParticipantListener (ABI break on DDS layer).
  • Added on_incompatible_type to RTPS listeners (ABI break on RTPS layer).
  • Added support for QNX 7.1 build.

Version 2.9.0

  • Default memory management policy set to PREALLOCATED_WITH_REALLOC_MEMORY_MODE (behaviour change)
  • Statistics metrics are only calculated/accumulated when their corresponding DataWriter is enabled (behaviour change)
  • Added new log macros EPROSIMA_LOG_INFO, EPROSIMA_LOG_WARNING and EPROSIMA_LOG_ERROR, and change all old macros logInfo, logWarning, and logError in the project.
  • Added ENABLE_OLD_LOG_MACROS CMake option to support disabling the compilation of old log macros logInfo, logWarning, and logError.
  • FASTDDS_STATISTICS build option set to ON by default
  • Added XML profile validation option as a CLI new verb task: "fastdds xml validate <xml_file(s)_path>". Added tests due to this new feature.

Version 2.8.0

  • Added API get the WAN address of TCPv4 transport descriptors (API extension)
  • Support propagate attribute for Properties in PropertyQoSPolicies so they could be set by user and sent in PDP
  • Added possibility to configure Ownership and Ownership Strength QoS Policies from XML profiles file
  • Added Server Name Indication (SNI) support for TLS-TCP communication
  • Changes to allow running tests on Android emulator or device
  • Added configuration settings for announcing locators on external LANs (ABI break)

Version 2.7.1

  • ReadCondition implementation according to DDS version 1.4 standard document
  • Added a new CMake option to allow users to force the use of our third party shared_mutex

Version 2.7.0

  • Implementation of DataWriter methods write_w_timestamp, register_instance_w_timestamp, unregister_instance_w_timestamp, and dispose_w_timestamp (ABI break)
  • Support of SampleRejectedStatus in DDS API (API extensions on RTPS layer)
  • Implementation of DomainParticipant method find_topic
  • Include Server Name Indication (SNI) empty API (ABI break on transport layer)
  • CacheChange_t destructor made virtual (ABI break on RTPS layer)
  • Added DDS APIs for ReadCondition (API extension)
  • Added bulk notification interface to RTPS reader listener (API extension)
  • Refactor of auxiliary utils class DBQueue (ABI break)
  • Added configuration data for external locators feature (ABI break)

Version 2.6.1

  • Writer side content filter.
  • Implementation for DataWriter::get_key_value.
  • Implementation for DataReader::lookup_instance.
  • Support of SampleLostStatus in DDS API.

Version 2.6.0

  • New TransportInterface and NetworkFactory API to allow updating the network interfaces at runtime (ABI breaks on RTPS and transport layers)
  • Removed dll export for constructors and destructors of factory created entities (breaks ABI)
  • Allow modifying the remote server locator in runtime.
  • Add physical information in DATA[p] using properties
  • Extension of DISCOVERY_TOPIC to include physical information about the discovered entity (ABI break)
  • Added methods getting fastdds::Time_t as parameters instead of fastdds::rtps::Time_t (API extension, API deprecations).
  • Changed signature of eprosima::fastdds::dds::DataWriter::dispose_w_timestamp (ABI break).
  • Added method getting std::vector<InstanceHandle_t>& instead of std::vector<InstanceHandle_t*>& (API extension, API deprecations).
  • Added RTPS APIs for content filter discovery information (API extension)
  • Added RTPS APIs for endpoint discovery (API extension)
  • Added RTPS APIs for on_sample_lost feature (API extension)

Version 2.5.0

  • Allow zero-valued InstanceHandle_t (ABI break)
  • Allow concatenation of transports (new exported symbols + ABI breaks on transport layer)
  • New DomainParticipantFactory API for loading XML profiles from a string data buffer (extends DomainParticipantFactory API, implies ABI break)
  • New DataWriter API allowing to wait for acknowledgements for a specific instance (extends DataWriter API, implies ABI break)
  • Generation of GUID on entity creation (ABI break on RTPS layer)
  • New DataReader history with correct implementation of instance_state and view_state (ABI break on RTPS layer)
  • Support for PKCS#11 format URIs for private keys

Version 2.4.0

  • Implementation of WaitSet, GuardCondition and StatusCondition.
  • Flow controllers (ABI breaks on RTPS layer).
  • Resolve DNS names on locators.
  • Allow addition of discovery servers in runtime (ABI breaks on RTPS layer).
  • Allow setting custom folder for data sharing files.
  • Allow setting persistence guid with static discovery.

Version 2.3.0

  • New Fast DDS Statistics module
  • New discovery "super-client" kind
  • Added methods to get sending locators for writers and listening locators for readers (ABI break)
  • Added support for unique network flows
  • Added reception_timestamp to eprosima::fastdds::dds::SampleInfo (ABI break)
  • Added eprosima::fastdds::dds::DataReader::get_unread_count (ABI break)
  • Refactor eprosima::fastdds::type::ReturnCode_t. Now the constant global objects are no longer available (ABI break)
  • Performance tests refactored to use DDS-PIM high-level API

Version 2.2.0

  • TopicDataType interface extended (ABI break)
  • Upgrade to Quality Level 1
  • New DataWriter API for loaning samples (extends DataWriter API, implies ABI break)
  • New template classes for loanable sequences
  • Added DataReader read and take APIs (implies ABI break)
  • Complete DDS traditional C++ API (implies ABI breaks)
  • Data sharing delivery (ABI breaks)

Version 2.1.0

This minor release is API compatible with the previous minor release, but introduces ABI breaks on two of the three public APIs:

  • Methods and attributes have been added on several classes of the DDS-PIM high-level API, so indexes of symbols on dynamic libraries may have changed
  • Methods and attributes have been added on several classes of the RTPS low-level API, so indexes of symbols on dynamic libraries may have changed
  • Old Fast-RTPS high-level API remains ABI compatible.

Users of the RTPS low-level API should also be aware of the following API deprecations:

  • History::reserve_Cache has been deprecated
    • Methods RTPSWriter::new_change or RTPSReader::reserveCache should be used instead
  • History::release_Cache has been deprecated
    • Methods RTPSWriter::release_change or RTPSReader::releaseCache should be used instead

This release adds the follwing features:

  • Support persistence for large data
  • Added support for on_requested_incompatible_qos and on_offered_incompatible_qos
  • SKIP_DEFAULT_XML environment variable
  • Added FORCE value to THIRDPARTY cmake options
  • New log consumer (StdOutErrConsumer)
  • Added methods to get qos defined in XML Profile
  • Support for persistence on TRANSIENT_LOCAL

It also includes the following improvements:

  • Internal refactor for intra-process performance boost
  • Allow usage of foonathan/memory library built without debug tool
  • Large data support on performance tests
  • Reduced flakiness of several tests

Some important bugfixes are also included:

  • Fixed behavior of several DDS API methods
  • Fixed interoperability issues with RTI connext
  • Fixed DLL export of some methods
  • Avoid redefinition of compiler defined macros
  • Fixed some intra-process related segmentation faults and deadlocks
  • Fixed large data payload protection issues on intra-process
  • Fixed C++17 and VS 2019 warnings
  • Fixed linker problems on some platforms
  • Fixed transient local retransmission after participant drop
  • Fixed assertion failure on persistent writers

Version 2.0.2

This release includes the following improvements:

  • Improve QNX support
  • Security improvements
  • Fast DDS Quality Declaration (QL 2)
  • Large traffic reduction when using Discovery Server (up to 85-90% for large deployments)
  • Configuration of Clients of Discovery Server using an environment variable
  • A CLI for Fast DDS:
    • This can be used to launch a discovery server
    • Clean SHM directories with one command
  • Shared memory transport enabled by default
  • Solved edge-case interoperability issue with CycloneDDS

Version 2.0.1

This release includes the following bug fixes:

  • Fixed sending GAPs to late joiners
  • Fixed asserting liveliness on data reception
  • Avoid calling OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms when not required

Other improvements:

  • Fixing warnings

Version 2.0.0

This release has the following API breaks:

  • eClock API, which was deprecated on v1.9.1, has been removed
  • eprosima::fastdds::rtps::RTPSDomain::createParticipant methods now have an additional first argument domain_id
  • Data member domainId has been removed from eprosima::fastdds::rtps::RTPSParticipantAttributes and added to eprosima::fastdds::ParticipantAttributes

Users should also be aware of the following deprecation announcement:

  • All classes inside the namespace eprosima::fastdds should be considered deprecated. Equivalent functionality is offered through namespace eprosima::fastdds.
  • Namespaces beneath eprosima::fastdds are not included in this deprecation, i.e. eprosima::fastdds::rtps can still be used)

This release adds the following features:

  • Added support for register/unregister/dispose instance
  • Added DDS compliant API. This new API exposes all the functionality of the Publisher-Subscriber Fast RTPS API adhering to the Data Distribution Service (DDS) version 1.4 specification <https://www.omg.org/spec/DDS/1.4>_
  • Added Security Logging Plugin (contributed by Cannonical Ltd.)
  • Bump to FastCDR v1.0.14

It also includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

  • Support for OpenSSL 1.1.1d and higher
  • Support for latest versions of gtest
  • Support for FreeBSD
  • Fault tolerance improvements to Shared Memory transport
  • Fixed segfault when no network interfaces are detected
  • Correctly ignoring length of PID_SENTINEL on parameter list
  • Improved traffic on PDP simple mode
  • Reduced CPU and memory usage

Version 1.10.0

This release adds the following features:

  • New built-in :ref:comm-transports-shm
  • Transport API refactored to support locator iterators
  • Added subscriber API to retrieve info of first non-taken sample
  • Added parameters to fully avoid dynamic allocations
  • History of built-in endpoints can be configured
  • Bump to FastCDR v1.0.13.
  • Bump to Fast-RTPS-Gen v1.0.4.
  • Require CMake 3.5 but use policies from 3.13

It also includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

  • Fixed alignment on parameter lists
  • Fixed error sending more than 256 fragments.
  • Fix handling of STRICT_REALTIME.
  • Fixed submessage_size calculation on last data_frag.
  • Solved an issue when recreating a publishing participant with the same GUID.
  • Solved an issue where a publisher could block on write for a long time when a new subscriber (late joiner) is matched, if the publisher had already sent a large number of messages.
  • Correctly handling the case where lifespan expires at the same time on several samples.
  • Solved some issues regarding liveliness on writers with no readers.
  • Correctly removing changes from histories on keyed topics.
  • Not reusing cache change when sample does not fit.
  • Fixed custom wait_until methods when time is in the past.
  • Several data races and ABBA locks fixed.
  • Reduced CPU and memory usage.
  • Reduced flakiness of liveliness tests.
  • Allow for more use cases on performance tests.

Several bug fixes on discovery server:

  • Fixed local host communications.
  • Correctly trimming server history.
  • Fixed backup server operation.
  • Fixed timing issues.

Version 1.9.4

This release adds the following features:

  • Intra-process delivery mechanism is now active by default.
  • Synchronous writers are now allowed to send fragments.
  • New memory mode DYNAMIC_RESERVE on history pool.
  • Performance tests can now be run on Windows and Mac.
  • XML profiles for requester and replier.

It also includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

  • Bump to FastCDR v1.0.12.
  • Bump to Fast-RTPS-Gen v1.0.3.
  • Fixed deadlock between PDP and StatefulReader.
  • Improved CPU usage and allocations on timed events management.
  • Performance improvements on reliable writers.
  • Fixing bugs when Intra-process delivery is activated.
  • Reducing dynamic allocations and memory footprint.
  • Improvements and fixes on performance tests.
  • Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Version 1.9.3

This release adds the following features:

  • Participant discovery filtering flags.
  • Intra-process delivery mechanism opt-in.

It also includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

  • Bump to Fast-RTPS-Gen v1.0.2.
  • Bring back compatibility with XTypes 1.1 on PID_TYPE_CONSISTENCY.
  • Ensure correct alignment when reading a parameter list.
  • Add CHECK_DOCUMENTATION cmake option.
  • EntityId_t and GuidPrefix_t have now their own header files.
  • Fix potential race conditions and deadlocks.
  • Improve the case where check_acked_status is called between reader matching process and its acknack reception.
  • RTPSMessageGroup_t instances now use the thread-local storage.
  • FragmentedChangePitStop manager removed.
  • Remove the data fragments vector on CacheChange_t.
  • Only call find_package for TinyXML2 if third-party options are off
  • Allow XMLProfileManager methods to not show error log messages if a profile is not found.

Version 1.9.2

This release includes the following feature:

  • Multiple initial PDP announcements.
  • Flag to avoid builtin multicast.

It also adds the following bug fixes and improvements:

  • Bump to Fast-RTPS-Gen v1.0.1.
  • Bump to IDL-Parser v1.0.1.

Version 1.9.1

This release includes the following features:

  • Fast-RTPS-Gen is now an independent project.
  • Header eClock.h is now marked as deprecated.

It also adds the following bug fixes and improvements:

  • Bump to FastCDR v1.0.11.
  • Installation from sources documentation fixed.
  • Fixed assertion on WriterProxy.
  • Fixed potential fall through while parsing Parameters.
  • Removed deprecated guards causing compilation errors in some 32 bits platforms.
  • addTOCDRMessage method is now exported in the DLL, fixing issues related with Parameters' constructors.
  • Improve windows performance by avoiding usage of _Cnd_timedwait method.
  • Fixed reported communication issues by sending multicast through localhost too.
  • Fixed potential race conditions and deadlocks.
  • Eliminating use of acceptMsgDirectTo.
  • Discovery Server framework reconnect/recreate strategy.
  • Removed unused folders.
  • Restored subscriber API.
  • SequenceNumber_t improvements.
  • Added STRICT_REALTIME cmake option.
  • SubscriberHistory improvements.
  • Assertion of participant liveliness by receiving RTPS messages from the remote participant.
  • Fixed error while setting next deadline event in create_new_change_with_params.

Version 1.9.0

This release includes the following features:

  • Partial implementation of allocation QoS.
  • Implementation of Discovery Server.
  • Implementation of non-blocking calls.

It also adds the following bug fixes and improvements:

  • Added sliding window to BitmapRange.
  • Modified default behavior for unknown writers.
  • A Flush() method was added to the logger to ensure all info is logged.
  • A test for loading Duration_t from XML was added.
  • Optimized WLP when removing local writers.
  • Some liveliness tests were updated so that they are more stable on Windows.
  • A fix was added to CMakeLists.txt for installing static libraries.
  • A fix was added to performance tests so that they can run on the RT kernel.
  • Fix for race condition on built-in protocols creation.
  • Fix for setting nullptr in a fixed_string.
  • Fix for v1.8.1 not building with -DBUILD_JAVA=ON.
  • Fix for GAP messages not being sent in some cases.
  • Fix for coverity report.
  • Several memory issues fixes.
  • fastrtps.repos file was updated.
  • Documentation for building with Colcon was added.
  • Change CMake configuration directory if INSTALLER_PLATFORM is set.
  • IDL sub-module updated to current version.

Version 1.8.4

This release adds the following feature:

  • XML profiles for requester and replier

It also has the following important bug fixes:

  • Solved an issue when recreating a publishing participant with the same GUID (either on purpose or by chance)
  • Solved an issue where a publisher could block on write for a long time when, after a large number of samples have been sent, a new subscriber is matched.

Version 1.8.3

This release adds the following bug fixes and improvements:

  • Fix serialization of TypeConsistencyEnforcementQosPolicy.
  • Bump to Fast-RTPS-Gen v1.0.2.
  • Bump to IDL-Parser v1.0.1.

Version 1.8.2

This release includes the following features:

  • Modified unknown writers default behavior.
  • Multiple initial PDP announcements.
  • Flag to avoid builtin multicast.
  • STRICT_REALTIME compilation flag.

It also adds the following bug fixes and improvements:

  • Fix for setting nullptr in a fixed string.
  • Fix for not sending GAP in several cases.
  • Solve Coverity report issues.
  • Fix issue of fastrtpsgen failing to open IDL.g4 file.
  • Fix unnamed lock in AESGCMGMAC_KeyFactory.cpp.
  • Improve XMLProfiles example.
  • Multicast is now sent through localhost too.
  • BitmapRange now implements sliding window.
  • Improve SequenceNumber_t struct.
  • Participant's liveliness is now asserted when receiving any RTPS message.
  • Fix leak on RemoteParticipantLeaseDuration.
  • Modified default values to improve behavior in Wi-Fi scenarios.
  • SubscriberHistory improvements.
  • Removed use of acceptMsgDirectTo.
  • WLP improvements.

Version 1.8.1

This release includes the following features:

  • Implementation of :ref:livelinessqospolicy QoS.

It also adds the following bug fixes and improvements:

  • Fix for get_change on history, which was causing issues during discovery.
  • Fix for announcement of participant state, which was sending ParticipantBuiltinData twice.
  • Fix for closing multicast UDP channel.
  • Fix for race conditions in SubscriberHistory, UDPTransportInterface and StatefulReader.
  • Fix for lroundl error on Windows in Time_t.
  • CDR & IDL submodules update.
  • Use of java 1.8 or greater for fastrtpsgen.jar generation.

Version 1.8.0

This release included the following features:

  • Implementation of IDL 4.2.
  • Implementation of :ref:deadlineqospolicy QoS.
  • Implementation of :ref:lifespanqospolicy QoS.
  • Implementation of :ref:disablepositiveacksqospolicy QoS.
  • Secure sockets on TCP transport (:ref:TLS).

It also adds the following improvements and bug fixes:

  • Real-time improvements: non-blocking write calls for best-effort writers, addition of fixed size strings, fixed size bitmaps, resource limited vectors, etc.
  • Duration parameters now use nanoseconds.
  • Configuration of participant mutation tries.
  • Automatic calculation of the port when a value of 0 is received on the endpoint custom locators.
  • Non-local addresses are now filtered from whitelists.
  • Optimization of check for acked status for stateful writers.
  • Linked libs are now not exposed when the target is a shared lib.
  • Limitation on the domain ID has been added.
  • UDP non-blocking send is now optional and configurable via XML.
  • Fix for non-deterministic tests.
  • Fix for ReaderProxy history being reloaded incorrectly in some cases.
  • Fix for RTPS domain hostid being potentially not unique.
  • Fix for participants with different lease expiration times failing to reconnect.

Known issues

  • When using TPC transport, sometimes callbacks are not invoked when removing a participant due to a bug in ASIO.

Version 1.7.2

This release fixes an important bug:

  • Allocation limits on subscribers with a KEEP_LAST QoS was taken from resource limits configuration and didn't take history depth into account.

It also has the following improvements:

  • Vendor FindThreads.cmake from CMake 3.14 release candidate to help with sanitizers.
  • Fixed format of gradle file.

Some other minor bugs and performance improvements.

Version 1.7.1

This release included the following features:

  • LogFileConsumer added to the logging system.
  • Handle FASTRTPS_DEFAULT_PROFILES_FILE environment variable indicating the default profiles XML file.
  • XML parser made more restrictive and with better error messages.

It also fixes some important bugs:

  • Fixed discovery issues related to the selected network interfaces on Windows.
  • Improved discovery times.
  • Workaround ASIO issue with multicast on QNX systems.
  • Improved TCP transport performance.
  • Improved handling of key-only data submessages.

Some other minor bugs and performance improvements.

KNOWN ISSUES

  • Allocation limits on subscribers with a KEEP_LAST QoS is taken from resource limits configuration and doesn't take history depth into account.

Version 1.7.0

This release included the following features:

  • :ref:comm-transports-tcp.
  • :ref:dynamic-types.
  • Security 1.1 compliance.

Also bug fixing, allocation and performance improvements.

Version 1.6.0

This release included the following features:

  • :ref:persistence.
  • Security access control plugin API and builtin :ref:access-permissions plugin.

Also bug fixing.

Version 1.5.0

This release included the following features:

  • Configuration of Fast RTPS entities through XML profiles.
  • Added heartbeat piggyback support.

Also bug fixing.

Version 1.4.0

This release included the following:

  • Added secure communications.
  • Removed all Boost dependencies. Fast RTPS is not using Boost libraries anymore.
  • Added compatibility with Android.
  • Bug fixing.

Version 1.3.1

This release included the following:

  • New examples that illustrate how to tweak Fast RTPS towards different applications.
  • Improved support for embedded Linux.
  • Bug fixing.

Version 1.3.0

This release introduced several new features:

  • Unbound Arrays support: Now you can send variable size data arrays.
  • Extended Fragmentation Configuration: It allows you to setup a Message/Fragment max size different to the standard 64Kb limit.
  • Improved logging system: Get even more introspection about the status of your communications system.
  • Static Discovery: Use XML to map your network and keep discovery traffic to a minimum.
  • Stability and performance improvements: A new iteration of our built-in performance tests will make benchmarking easier for you.
  • ReadTheDocs Support: We improved our documentation format and now our installation and user manuals are available online on ReadTheDocs.

Version 1.2.0

This release introduced two important new features:

  • Flow Controllers: A mechanism to control how you use the available bandwidth avoiding data bursts. The controllers allow you to specify the maximum amount of data to be sent in a specific period of time. This is very useful when you are sending large messages requiring fragmentation.
  • Discovery Listeners: Now the user can subscribe to the discovery information to know the entities present in the network (Topics, Publishers & Subscribers) dynamically without prior knowledge of the system. This enables the creation of generic tools to inspect your system.

But there is more:

  • Full ROS2 Support: Fast RTPS is used by ROS2, the upcoming release of the Robot Operating System (ROS).
  • Better documentation: More content and examples.
  • Improved performance.
  • Bug fixing.