Revision history for Biber 1.3 (01-11-2012) * New "append" mode for sourcemap to allow combining of fields * map_final now possible for map_set_field steps which causes map to stop completely if map_overwrite is false and the field to set already exists * Allow extrayear generation when there is no labelyear 1.2 (20-08-2012) * Misc bug fixes 1.1 (01-08-2012) * Misc bug fixes * Fixed later CentOS libz issue by including latest libz for linux builds * Fixed DOT output (SF bug 3544894) 1.0 (01-07-2012) * Internal data model processing changes * New labeltitleyear and extratitleyear disambiguation tracker * New labeltitle and extratitle disambiguation tracker * Sorting per list enabled for biblatex 2.0 * New noinit option for ignoring parts of names when generating initials * Some optimisations for large data sources * Fixed build issues which broke PAR::Packer binary under latest Debian (Wheezy) 0.9.9 30-03-2012 * Added sortfirstinits option * HTTPS support for remote data sources * Biber now ignores names when it can't determine minimal information like a lastname. Before, it would throw lots of errors and die. * Strips UTF-8 BOMs before passing to Text::BibTeX otherwise it complains * Merged --graph and --bltxml options into --outformat option * Updated some internal Unicode 6.0 things * Minor bug fixes 0.9.8 20-12-2012 * Changed config file sourcemap syntax and docs * Support for citekey aliases * New DOT output format 0.9.7 27-11-2011 * per-datasource mapping restrictions * Completely new config file format to allow for extensions * Fixed --help issue with PAR::Packer * Fixed .bcf XSL inheritance attribute value issue * Moved XDATA output skip into structure where it should have been originally 0.9.6 13-11-2011 * Fixed binary issue with Readonly::XS not being detected * Fixed bug tracker ticket #3436870 * Match/replace functionality for data source field filtering * New AUCTeX patches for better biblatex/biber support * Now requires perl 5.14 for full Unicode 6.0 support * New XDATA entrytype and field to allow more complex macro-style data inheritance * crossref cascading is in guaranteed resolve order now * Warnings/error summary is now a more consistent format with all other biber messages. * Matching of .bcf keys to datasource keys is now case-sensitive * Fixed biblatex bug tracker ticket #3399744 * Fixed bug tracker ticket #3402114 * max/minnames -> max/mincitenames * max/min* now all per-type and per-entry * uniquelist/uniquename now per-entry * Re-factored recode module with XML data and XSL->HTML transform doc 0.9.5 18-08-2011 * Fixed auto-bblsafechars bug * refactored explicit "and others" in bibtex data sources * Fixed issue with sorting=none and \nocite{*} 0.9.4 30-07-2011 * Added support for "SORTSHORTHAND" field * New "map" option to allow user field/entry type mapping (aliasing) in addition to .dcf settings * Made the relevant places depend on max/min{alpha,bib}names instead of just max/minnames * Bug fixes to bblsafechars * Implemented user-customisable labelalpha (not yet in biblatex) * Implemented per-name hashes 0.9.3 05-06-2011 * New mininit and minfull uniquename options * New minyear uniquelist option * Major revamp of uniqueness code * Moved to new external process calling module because IPC::Run doesn't work on Windows in packed binaries (kpsewhich was returning nothing). 0.9.2 09-05-2011 * Some internal changes for perl 5.14 * Bug fixes for uniquelist processing 0.9.1 29-04-2011 * Made temp files all use a global temp dir. * Moved temp .utf8 conversions to temp dir so biber works using .bib files which are in non-writable locations. * Added back an info log message about finding data sources (Lyx compat) 0.9 29-03-2011 * No longer auto-escapes any TeX markup in bibtex data sources. This is fraught with danger and is a mess. Best not to do it at all. * Supports biblatex \bibnamedelimi macro * Implementation of uniquename and uniquelist options for biblatex 1.4+ 0.8.4 19-03-2011 * Bug fixes (wrong escaping of "[", "_" and "]" in .bbl) 0.8.3 14-03-2011 * Biber now in TexLive * Added several new binary builds * All name part and element formatting is now abstracted into macros so that it can be controlled via biblatex. * Much more documentation on binary builds for packagers * Bug fixes 0.8.2 14-02-2011 * Bug fixes 0.8.1 12-02-2011 * Small bug with default bibtex month macro support * Made remote file support a little more robust (URI return codes) 0.8 11-02-2011 * Forces biblatex format for month field * Added support for remote data sources * Added experimental support for RIS data sources * Took out -a and -d flags. These are no longer very useful as the increasingly sophisticated biblatex options cannot be set on the command line anyway and so these flags are less and less relevant * New inheritance model in sync with biblatex defaults * Bug fixes 0.7.4 05-02-2011 * Fix for mincrossrefs leaking across sections (biblatex SF bug #3173032) 0.7.3 03-02-2011 * Performance tuning for sorting * Text::BibTeX 0.51 for increased macro stack space * Support for old BibTeX month macros by default * Re-write of datasource processing to allow for modular plugins * Generalised nosort option. * Merged LaTeX::Decode into Biber::LaTeX::Recode and added encoding to deal with inputenc's limitations for PDFLaTeX users * new options for forcing/tuning UTF-8 -> LaTeX macro conversion * Bug fixes 0.7.2 08-01-2011 * Improved latexmk compatibility more 0.7.1 07-01-2011 * Improved latexmk compatibility * Added "x-ascii" encoding alias for "ascii" to deal with inputenx ascii. * Bug fixes 0.7 05-01-2011 * Completely re-written sorting routine using Schwartzian transform for real multi-field support and per-field sorting settings. * Bug fixes 0.6.9 (dev beta) * Bug fixes 0.6.8 (dev beta) * Generalised sorting behaviour in several respects * Bug fixes 0.6.7 (dev beta) * Bug fixes 0.6.6 (dev beta) * More generalised sorting options * Bug fixes 0.6.5 (dev beta) * Bug fixes 0.6.4 (dev beta) * Bug fixes 0.6.3 (dev beta) * Outputs labelname name list to the .bbl * Support for dynamic sets and simpler static set interface * Misc bug fixes 0.6.2 (dev beta) * Internal cleanup of structure code * Misc bug fixes 0.6.1 (dev beta) * More comprehensive structural checks on allowed entrytypes/fields and field combinations/formats * Added option validate_structure to turn on structural checks * Renamed option validate -> validate_control * Renamed option output-directory -> output_directory * Added labelname and labelyear as possible sort specifications * Misc bug fixes 0.6 20-11-2010 * First non-beta release * More abstracted and extensible crossref inheritance model * U::C dependency to 0.67 * sortcase and sortupper options now take same argument forms as in biblatex * Misc bug fixes 0.5.7 09-10-2010 * Misc bug fixes 0.5.6 04-10-2010 * Latex character macro decoding is now better defined in the whole (re)encoding workflow. * "inputenc" option is now "bblencoding" * "locale" option is now "sortlocale" * New option "sortupper" * Unicode::Collate sorting is now default as version 0.61 of this has XS module and CLDR tailoring. * Added binary dist build scripts * Removed bundled Module::Build as there are some conflicts with later versions. This is less of a problem anyway because the binary build makes it less necessary to make builds easy on perl<5.10 * Misc bug fixes 0.5.5 29-08-2010 * Biber::BibTeX moved to Biber::Input::BibTeX. If upgrading, please remove your installed /Biber/BibTeX.pm, just to be tidy * New aliases for EPRINT classes and types implemented (see BibLaTeX docs). * Biber now resolves XREFs as well as CROSSREFs so one less LaTeX pass is needed * Allows UTF-8 citekeys. Requires Text::BibTeX >= 0.46 and a fully UTF-8 aware TeX macro package (e.g. XeTeX or LuaLaTeX). Normal LaTeX with \inputenc will not work because the UTF-8 it uses is incomplete, macro based and not native. * RecDescent parser is no longer supported or included. If upgrading, please remove your installed /Biber/BibTeX directory, just to be tidy * Now requires LaTeX::Decode >= 0.03 * Stricter version dependency for Text::BibTeX. Older than 0.42 is rather useless for complex names. * Re-factored and enhanced auto-re-encoding of .bib/.bbl. With biblatex 0.9c, Biber handles all reencoding. * Misc bug fixes 0.5.4 04-08-2010 * Case-sensitive sorting option * Multi-section support. Only one biber pass needed to process all bib sections using extended biblatex 0.9b .bbl format. * .aux file is no longer used by biber - all information is passed in .bcf file. * Misc bug fixes * LaTeX::Decode is now a separate CPAN module and is no longer included 0.5.3 19-03-2010 * Changed semantics of --outfile and --output-directory. --outfile is now relative to --output-directory. If --outfile is absolute, it is stripped to the filename and the path discarded. Absolute .aux paths are stripped to filename for appending to --output-directory. * Updated PRD to use new encoding option names. Now works with -e. * sortlos was not settable to use bib sort order * With Text::BibTeX >= 0.42, will do all name/initials generation with btparse library. * Abstracted BBL output into Biber::Output class for better re-use and potential for output formats other than .bbl. * Synced uniquename .bcf values with change in biblatex 0.9a 0.5.2 04-03-2010 * Locale fixes * Uniquename fixed to match BibLaTeX option values * Improved error message for malformed names * Fixed config file problems under windows and also added option to ignore config file * Bug with conflicting case between citations and bib entries * Moved pure perl parsename to PRD.pm * Re-write of name parsing to use Text::BibTeX::Name by default * Fields which can be null are explicitly flagged * Add THANKS file * Die early when biber is called without argument * Fixed Mac config path error * .bib parse continues after certain errors * regularised collate options processing * field nameaddon was missing from Biber::Constants * Improved warning message for missing backend=biber * SF bug 2952347 fix (empty date range end) * uniquename counter was being provided incorrectly 0.5.1 15.02.2010 * Remove support for legacy control files (\jobname-blx.bib): Biber now only reads .bcf files written by biblatex with the option "backend=biber". * Improved handling of "uniquename" and "namehash". * Don't apply latexescape in bbl output, as it breaks math formatting. 0.5 13.02.2010 * Supports all changes introduced by biblatex 0.9 * Moved all parts relating to the experimental BibLaTeXML format to the "biblatexml" branch on the git repo * Communication between biblatex and Biber can be done through a XML-based config file (extension .bcf): this is enabled with the experimental biblatex option "backend=biber" * Biber can now be customized with a configuration file * Considerable refactoring and cleanup of the code * Further enhancements to the test suite * Improved logging mechanism * More robust parsing of personal names * Ignore certain prefixes and diacritics in sort strings, for instance ʿAlī is sorted under A, and al-Hasan under H. This can be customized in the configuration file (biber.conf). * New command-line option --output-directory (like TeX) * Many, many bugfixes :) (See the output of "git log" for all details...) 0.4.3 23.07.2009 * With biblatex option "backend=biber" and biber option --v2 the new experimental control file \jobname.bcf is used, which brings in many new features, such as per-entrytype settings. * More sophisticated/customizable sorting mechanism * More extensive test suite * Improved BibLaTeXML schema * improved handling of BibLaTeXML (enable nested children, formatting elements, nosort elements) * Do not apply latexescape() by default on xml strings * Skip title handling in BibLaTeXML when not existing * Ignore maxline, add option wraplines * Built-in sort is now default (option --fastsort) * Sorting with Unicode::Collate is possible with option --collate * Make tests succeed w/o Parse::RD and Regexp::Common * Don't output date and urldate in the bbl * Add missing fields "date" "urldate" "organization" "annotator" "foreword" and "eventtitle" * Use Data::Dump instead of Data::Dumper for debugging * Fields "library" and "remarks" are now skipped * Bugfix for aliases (e.g. address, school) * Bugfix: process urldate to get urlyear,urlmonth,urlday * Remove illegal value shorttranslator from labelname option * Changed biberdebug option to debug * Changed option inputencoding to bibencoding 0.4.2 25.04.2009 * New option --inputencoding to handle 8-bit encoded bib files * $BIBINPUT environment is now searched * Improved parsing of personal names * @comments are now silently ignored * Fixed handling of @preamble; multiple preambles are allowed * Warnings and errors behave more like BibTeX * Alias fields are automatically converted (e.g. address -> location) * Take care of "phdthesis" and "mathesis" types * Cite keys of bib files are now case-insensitive * Default Unicode collation now uses the table "latinkeys.txt" (this is much faster than "allkeys.txt" which contains rules for all Unicode glyphs) * Unicode::Collate parameters can be passed as a command-line option * Faster sorting (with option -f) is also possible for specific locales given with option --locale (this is OS-dependent however) * PRD grammar is now precompiled * bbl output is now wrapped acc to maxline option * Empty fields are no longer printed in the bbl * Sorting is much improved. * Use sortstring separators 0 1 2 like biblatex.bst * Handle truncation of name lists acc to minnames/maxnames * bib2biblatexml has been improved * Windows version of Text::BibTeX provided as ppm. * Many more bugfixes! 0.4.1 31.03.2009 * Text::BibTeX now optional dependency 0.4 27.03.2009 * Initial beta release