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
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 2.22

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.5 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Known vulnerabilities in the current version:

CVE-2026-12844 (high) List::SomeUtils::XS versions before 0.59 for Perl have a heap buffer overflow in the pairwise fun...
CVE-2026-7111 (high) Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.62 for Perl have a use-after-free when registered callbacks extend...
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.

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