What's new in Biber 2.0
Apr 29, 2015
- Misc bug fixes
- New negated "per type" sourcemap verb for negating the application of maps to specific entry types
- New "entry clone" sourcemap verb for cloning entries during sourcemapping. See PDF documentation for biber.
- Added range length calculation support. Biber now calculates the length of ranges for biblatex and can handle roman numerals, including just about any UTF-8 composed, non-composed or compat versions
- Complete re-write of the biblatex use* name functionality now automatically supports all name fields defined in the data model. See biblatex manual
- Moved labelname and labeltitle resolution from biber to biblatex for more flexibility and future extensions
- Moved to perl 5.20 for all internals and builds
New in Biber 1.9 (Apr 29, 2015)
- Misc bug fixes
- Option names accept dashes as well as underscores for general TeX option compatibility
- New "--input-directory" option
- Tool mode now also supports data validation
- Perl 5.18 is now used to build all biber binaries
- Locale-sensitive sorting now more granular (see biblatex "sortlocale" documentation)
- Source mapping feature now interpolates from previous matches
- Now supports generalised separated values lists using new "--xsvsep" option
- Macro UTF-8 conversion now more robust
- New Text::BibTeX library now supports generating initials from general UTF-8 strings (for, e.g. Russian names)
New in Biber 1.8 (Apr 29, 2015)
- Perl 5.18 compatibility (hash order randomisation)
- Removed Data::Diver module due to linux licensing restrictions
- Misc Bug Fixes
New in Biber 1.7 (Apr 29, 2015)
- Added clrmacros option
- Added map_nomatch
- Added --tool_macro_fields option
- Exposed sorting option to user-level config file (so sorting in tool mode is possible)
New in Biber 1.6 (Apr 29, 2015)
- Bugfixes
- Now uses perl 5.16. Non-binary (unpacked) use requires perl 5.16+
- Improved tool mode with some formatting options
- Made Unicode NFD/NFC boundaries more robust
- labelyear is now labeldate to match biblatex 2.6
- Support for new CLONESOURCEKEY field
- New padding character option in labelalphatemplate
New in Biber 1.5 (Apr 29, 2015)
- Added new source mapping option "map_entry_null"
- Renamed some options (old ones remain as aliases):
- bibencoding -> input_encoding
- bblencoding -> output_encoding
- bblsafechars -> output_safechars
- bblsafecharsset -> output_safecharsset
- outfile -> output_file
- outformat -> output_format
- New "tool" mode with "--tool" option which takes a data source as argument
- and just performs reencoding and source mappings etc. as per options and config file
- Support for customisable BibTeX data source list and name separators
- Better debug output for source mapping
- Better defined source mapping hierarchy with bugfixes