The following new features have been added to Views 7.0.

Views 7.0 adds the ability to use Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) styling rules to customize the look-and-feel of gadgets used to build Views applications. Style sheets are simple text files that specify CSS directives to style Views gadgets including attributes to define foreground and background colors, background images, margins and padding, and many other visual aspects. The following is a simple example of a CSS file that changes the background and foreground colors of an IlvButton:

For complete documentation and examples on styling your application with Views CSS Look and Feel see the Views CSS Style Sheets documentation in the Gadgets Reference Guide.

Views version 7.0 now supports JPEG 2000.

Improvements to UTM projection, WGS84 and MGRS coordinate conversion have been made in Views 7.0. These improvements provide more accurate conversions and performance improvements.

GNU GCC ABI differences require separate library builds for versions prior to GCC 5.x and GCC 5.x and later. Views 7.0 now provides separate builds for each version of the GCC, accommodating applications built with newer versions of the GCC compilers.

This is a new property for IlvPalette. IlvBorderPosition indicates where the border is drawn when creating a rectangle or a rounded rectangle.