ctan-ann - biber

CTAN update: biber

2011-02-03T20:21:51Z

the daemon slept, and then crawls out with the excellent:

> Name of contribution: biber
> Author's name: Philip Kime

> Location on CTAN: biblio/biber/
> Summary description: Biber is a BibTeX replacement for biblatex
> License type: artistic
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 0.7.3 has support for re-encoding of UTF-8 <-> TeX macros to help 
> people using PDFLaTeX and the incomplete subset of UTF-8 which inputenc 
> supports.

thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.

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CTAN update: biber

2011-02-12T00:26:59Z

the daemon wrote:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: biber
> Author's name: Philip Kime
> Location on CTAN: biblio/biber
> Summary description: Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX
> License type: artistic
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Companion release for biblatex 1.2
> New features: supports remote data sources, RIS data sources, highly flexibly 
> data inheritance

thanks for the upload; i've installed the replacement version and

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Package biber updated

2011-03-21T13:59:20Z

CTAN is now holding biber 0.8.4 (we "sort of" mirror from sourceforge).

Philip Kime says:
> All binaries are updated too. Everything is in the "current" branch as
> usual on SourceForge. 
>
> This is bugfix release to address some LaTeX special char escaping in
> the .bbl and an internal has generation bug. No new features.

the mirroring process can't (entirely) be relied upon, so for the time
being at least, announcement messages will be generated manually, from
input from philip.

i have also updated the catalogue repository.

Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biber.html

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CTAN update: biblateX and biber

2016-09-08T20:43:46Z

Philip Kime submitted an update to the

                biblatex and biber 

packages.

Version numbers: 3.5 and 2.6 
License type: lppl1.3

Summary descriptions: 
             BibLaTeX: Sophisticated Bibliographies in LaTeX 
             Biber: A BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX

Announcement text:
Biblatex 3.5 requires biber 2.6
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