[tex-live] biber (2.6) and biblatex (3.10) incompatible

Joseph Wright joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Sat Feb 10 15:10:01 CET 2018


On 10/02/2018 11:05, Christian Stadelmann wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> currently, when installing texlive through tlmgr, it will install biber
> 2.6 and biblatex 3.10, which are incompatible. As a result, any run of
> biber will fail, rendering it useless:
> 
> INFO - This is Biber 2.6
> INFO - Logfile is 'outdir/Thesis.blg'
> INFO - Reading 'outdir/Thesis.bcf'
> ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.4, expected
> version 3.2.
> This means that your biber (2.6) and biblatex (3.10) versions are
> incompatible.
> See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation.
> INFO - ERRORS: 1
> 
> This issue has been raised before (in November 2017, see [1]). At that
> time, there were issues with biber/biblatex, which resulted in an
> update being redrawn. These bugs are now fixed, as the MiKTeX builds
> work fine.
> 
> There was an issue with tex4ht (in the same thread), but I am not sure
> it is fixed. There was no update to tex4ht at least. On the other hand,
> tex4ht hasn't seen an update for years and the base has moved a bit.
>  From a web search it seems like there are several fixups needed to make
> tex4ht work with modern tex packages anyway, so I doubt this can be
> fixed from the texlive side.
> 
> Are there any plans to update biber to a version compatible with
> biblatex?
> 
> [1] https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2017-November/040776.html

Something must be up with the server you are using: my TeX Live system 
has Biber 2.10 as expected.

Joseph



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