I may be confused, but I thought that biber was one of the two biblatex backends. Can biblatex run without a backend?
From: Paul Thompson <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 3:34 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Biber Pretty sure that biber is deprecated in favor of biblatex. https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Bibliography_management_in_LaTeX Paul A Thompson On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hello, I just re-installed MikTex from scratch. I ran the console and performed all of the updates. Thus, I should be current. I am running on Windows 11 64-bit. My issue is that biber seems to just freeze. It just hangs until I terminate it via CTRL-C. I know my .bib file is correct. I ran BibTeX on it and it is happy with the file. I would stick with BibTex, except that the biblatex package with the style=apa option requires biber. Has anyone else run into this issue? Is there a workaround? Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ Q: How can I leave the mailing list? A: See https://miktex.org/faq/how-can-i-leave-the-mailing-list _______________________________________________ Q: How can I leave the mailing list? A: See https://miktex.org/faq/how-can-i-leave-the-mailing-list
