biber

Install command: 
brew install biber

Backend processor for BibLaTeX

https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/

License: Artistic-2.0

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/biber.json

Formula code: biber.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 2.22

Revision: 1

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.10 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: libxml2, libxslt, perl

Binaries: biber

Analytics:

30 days90 days365 days
Installs4841,1843,441
Installs (--HEAD)034
Installs on Request4841,1843,441
Installs on Request (--HEAD)034
Build Errors9

Known vulnerabilities in the current version:

CVE-2026-110752 (high) Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl allow memory exhaustion by allocating one entry per in...
CVE-2026-110753 (critical) Text::CSV_XS versions from 1.46 before 1.65 for Perl have a use-after-free of bind_columns variab...
CVE-2026-110754 (medium) Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl leak the parsed fields of a record that fails to parse...
CVE-2026-110755 (high) Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl allow quadratic CPU use by copying the unparsed remain...
CVE-2026-110756 (critical) Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl drop the end of a record and its line ending when a UT...
CVE-2026-110757 (critical) Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl allow record splitting by writing strings used as numb...
CVE-2026-110758 (high) Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl read before the start of an all-blank field under allo...
CVE-2026-110759 (critical) Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl return a 0xFF byte that is not in the input for an emp...
CVE-2026-8594 (medium) Text::LineFold versions through 2019.001 for Perl duplicate the output based on the number of spe...

Data from Homebrew/advisory-database. Run brew vulns biber for a live check.