Add Galactic release note about new Connext RMW.

Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <[email protected]>
ros2 · Mar 24, 2021 · 7612c5b · 7612c5b
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@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ Without any configuration changes, users will get Cyclone DDS by default.
 Fast-DDS and Connext are still Tier-1 supported RMW vendors, and users can opt-in to use one of these RMWs at their discretion by using the ``RMW_IMPLEMENTATION`` environment variable.
 See the `Working with multiple RMW implementations guide <../Guides/Working-with-multiple-RMW-implementations>` for more information.
 
+Connext RMW changed to rwm_connextdds
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+A new RMW for Connext called `rmw_connextdds <https://github.com/ros2/rmw_connextdds>`_ was merged for Galactic.
+This RMW has better performance and fixes many of the issues with the older RMW.
+
 New RMW API
 ^^^^^^^^^^^