biber-2.18

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

2.18 (2022-06)

• Added support for biblatex "pluralothers" option which allows "etal" to be forced to replace more than one name.
• Universal x86_64/ARM64 binary
• Support for citation-only rules for name templates in sorting (see \visibility macro in sorting name key templates in biblatex)

[Xi Ruoyao]

New biblatex-3.18.tds.tgz is also available.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

bc9fa7350f Update to biber-2.18.
caf69f51a8 Update to ffmpeg-5.1.
bf716e145c Fix ffmpeg patch name

[ken@…]

The version of biblatex shipped in texlive source for 2022 is 3.17. Invoking biber on that (after initial run of pdflatex for the biblatex-unibiber target of ​https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tex-testfiles/latex-test-20220322.tar.xz results in

biber biblatex-biber
INFO - This is Biber 2.18
INFO - Logfile is 'biblatex-biber.blg'
INFO - Reading 'biblatex-biber.bcf'
ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.8, expected version 3.9.
This means that your biber (2.18) and biblatex (3.17) versions are incompatible.
See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation.
INFO - ERRORS: 1
make: *** [Makefile:110: biblatex-biber] Error 2

The build-time tests in biber attempt to pickup *other* inconsistencies.

[ken@…]

Latest biblatex is now biblatex-3.18a.tds.tgz, will try with that.

[ken@…]

Rude words, latest was 3.18a when I downloaded it, but has been 3.18b since 12th July.

[ken@…]

# RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 3.18b

• Reenable \MakeUppercase/\MakeLowercase "patches" for \bibstring based on \CaseSwitch.

# RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 3.18a

• Disable \MakeUppercase/\MakeLowercase patches as emergency fix for LaTeX 2022-06-01-PL4 compatibility.

# RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 3.18

• New sorting name key generation macro \visibility which allows application of sorting name key generation to apply only to sorting within citati ons.
• New sorting macro \intciteorder which allows sorting by order internal to a cite command like \cite{a,b,c}.
• New option pluralothers to force "et al." to be plural (i.e. only replace two or more names). This is required for some styles (e.g. APA)
• Added \localrefcontext as a local alternative to the global \newrefcontext. \localrefcontext can be nested and is only active in the current group.

[ken@…]

Fixed in 40df807b6314c13a7759914b293ef06695945174 11.1-886