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Revision history for Biber
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 <perl lib>/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 <perl lib>/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
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