diff --git a/.clang-format b/.clang-format
index 5486a84a..634ebdb9 100644
--- a/.clang-format
+++ b/.clang-format
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: false
 AlwaysBreakAfterDefinitionReturnType: None
 AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: None
 AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: false
-AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: false
+AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: MultiLine
 BinPackArguments: true
 BinPackParameters: true
-BraceWrapping:
+BraceWrapping:   
   AfterClass:      false
   AfterControlStatement: false
   AfterEnum:       false
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ BraceWrapping:
 BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: None
 BreakBeforeBraces: Attach
 BreakBeforeInheritanceComma: false
+BreakInheritanceList: BeforeColon
 BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true
 BreakConstructorInitializersBeforeComma: false
 BreakConstructorInitializers: BeforeColon
@@ -54,12 +55,12 @@ DerivePointerAlignment: false
 DisableFormat:   false
 ExperimentalAutoDetectBinPacking: false
 FixNamespaceComments: true
-ForEachMacros:
+ForEachMacros:   
   - foreach
   - Q_FOREACH
   - BOOST_FOREACH
 IncludeBlocks:   Preserve
-IncludeCategories:
+IncludeCategories: 
   - Regex:           '^"(llvm|llvm-c|clang|clang-c)/'
     Priority:        2
   - Regex:           '^(<|"(gtest|isl|json)/)'
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ MacroBlockBegin: ''
 MacroBlockEnd:   ''
 MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 1
 NamespaceIndentation: None
+ObjCBinPackProtocolList: Auto
 ObjCBlockIndentWidth: 2
 ObjCSpaceAfterProperty: false
 ObjCSpaceBeforeProtocolList: true
@@ -86,20 +88,21 @@ PenaltyBreakBeforeFirstCallParameter: 19
 PenaltyBreakComment: 300
 PenaltyBreakFirstLessLess: 120
 PenaltyBreakString: 1000
+PenaltyBreakTemplateDeclaration: 10
 PenaltyExcessCharacter: 1000000
 PenaltyReturnTypeOnItsOwnLine: 60
 PointerAlignment: Right
-RawStringFormats:
-  - Delimiter:       pb
-    Language:        TextProto
-    BasedOnStyle:    google
 ReflowComments:  true
 SortIncludes:    false
 SortUsingDeclarations: true
 SpaceAfterCStyleCast: false
 SpaceAfterTemplateKeyword: true
 SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
+SpaceBeforeCpp11BracedList: false
+SpaceBeforeCtorInitializerColon: true
+SpaceBeforeInheritanceColon: true
 SpaceBeforeParens: ControlStatements
+SpaceBeforeRangeBasedForLoopColon: true
 SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
 SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 1
 SpacesInAngles:  false
diff --git a/doc/sources/contribute.rst b/doc/sources/contribute.rst
index dc814a39..a4e50173 100644
--- a/doc/sources/contribute.rst
+++ b/doc/sources/contribute.rst
@@ -26,16 +26,16 @@ Coding style
 We use clang-format to format source code consistently.  The
 clang-format configuration file .clang-format is located at the root
 directory.  Since clang-format produces slightly different results
-between versions, we currently use clang-format-6.0.
+between versions, we currently use clang-format-7.
 
 To detect any violation to the coding style, we recommend to setup git
 pre-commit hook to check coding style of the changes you introduced.
 The pre-commit file is located at the root directory.  Copy it under
 .git/hooks and make sure that it is executable.  The pre-commit script
 uses clang-format-diff.py to detect any style errors.  If it is not in
-your PATH or it exists under different name (e.g.,
-clang-format-diff-6.0 in debian), either add it to PATH variable or
-add git option ``clangformatdiff.binary`` to point to the script.
+your PATH or it exists under different name (e.g., clang-format-diff-7
+in debian), either add it to PATH variable or add git option
+``clangformatdiff.binary`` to point to the script.
 
 For emacs users, integrating clang-format to emacs is very easy.
 clang-format.el should come with clang distribution.  If it is not