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biber incompatible with biblatex after update
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After yesterday's update of biber from 2.11 to 2.15 it doesn't work with the biblatex 3.11 (which comes with texlive version 20180414) anymore:

biber build/Projekt
INFO - This is Biber 2.15
INFO - Logfile is 'build/Projekt.blg'
INFO - Reading 'build/Projekt.bcf'
ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.4, expected version 3.7.
This means that your biber (2.15) and biblatex (3.11) versions are incompatible.
See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation.
INFO - ERRORS: 1

For the compatibility matrix please see:
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/biblio/biber/documentation/biber.pdf

So please either update texlive or revert the biber update.

Thank you!

(And from a long time lurker: Thanks for all your hard work!)

Revisions and Commits

R427 biber
D9544R427:49b2d3fa60b6 Revert biber to 2.11 to fix compatibility with biblatex 3.11

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GladOSkar created this task.Aug 29 2020, 7:57 PM
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algent added a subscriber: algent.Aug 29 2020, 11:15 PM

Hi @GladOSkar

Can you share build/Projekt.bcf files, so I can test them against biber-2.11, or you can download and then install biber-2.11 from here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7fnwcsq1lqp9nmu/biber-2.11-17-1-x86_64.eopkg?dl=0

GladOSkar added a comment.EditedAug 30 2020, 9:19 AM

I already rolled back the update, but i re-updated to get the bcf file:

Projekt.bcf88 KBDownload

Thanks for the package file, it works and will do for now :)

algent added a comment.Aug 30 2020, 10:16 AM

There are some other files needed:

biber Projekt.bcf 
INFO - This is Biber 2.11
INFO - Logfile is 'Projekt.blg'
INFO - Reading 'Projekt.bcf'
INFO - Found 2 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Processing section 0
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'src/literatur.bib' for section 0
ERROR - Cannot find 'src/literatur.bib'!
INFO - ERRORS: 1

You are confirming that biber-2.11-17-1-x86_64.eopkg is working fine for you, so that it should be OK.

GladOSkar added a comment.Aug 30 2020, 10:21 AM

Yeah i don't think it's necessary for you to build the entire thing, it's a big project.

Your biber 2.11 package works for me so it's fine for now.

The next step would be updating texlive i guess?

algent added a comment.Aug 30 2020, 10:39 AM

The next step would be updating texlive i guess?

When that happens it will require updating biber also. For now I am thinking to submit a patch to revert biber to version 2.11.

It is important for me to know if you have updated and then installed biber-2.11-17-1-x86_64.eopkg, because in the last update, there were other perl packages that have updated and they are dependencies of biber. This will confirm that biber-2.11-17-1-x86_64.eopkgis working as expected.

GladOSkar added a comment.EditedAug 30 2020, 10:41 AM

Ah good to know.

Yes i am fully up to date and your biber-2.11-17-1-x86_64.eopkg works perfectly.

$ sudo eopkg up
[...]
No packages to upgrade.
$ eopkg info biber
Installed package:
Name                : biber, version: 2.11, release: 17
[...]
Package found in Solus repository:
Name                : biber, version: 2.15, release: 16
[...]
$ biber build/Projekt
INFO - This is Biber 2.11
INFO - Logfile is 'build/Projekt.blg'
INFO - Reading 'build/Projekt.bcf'
INFO - Found 2 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Processing section 0
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'src/literatur.bib' for section 0
INFO - LaTeX decoding ...
INFO - Found BibTeX data source 'src/literatur.bib'
INFO - Overriding locale 'de-DE' defaults 'variable = shifted' with 'variable = non-ignorable'
INFO - Overriding locale 'de-DE' defaults 'normalization = NFD' with 'normalization = prenormalized'
INFO - Sorting list 'nty/global//global/global' of type 'entry' with template 'nty' and locale 'de-DE'
INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'de-DE'
INFO - Writing 'build/Projekt.bbl' with encoding 'UTF-8'
INFO - Output to build/Projekt.bbl
algent added a revision: D9544: Revert biber to 2.11 to fix compatibility with biblatex 3.11.Aug 30 2020, 11:46 AM
JoshStrobl closed this task as Resolved by committing R427:49b2d3fa60b6: Revert biber to 2.11 to fix compatibility with biblatex 3.11.Sep 1 2020, 7:17 AM
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