On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 03:26:07PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 09:26:56AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > If we upgrade those two, I’m pretty sure we won’t need Biber 2.5 any
> > more and can replace it with what is currently biber-next.
> > 
> > I would suggest not to spend too much time on Biber 2.5 as it is on its
> > way out — it just needs a texlive-texmf update.
> 
> Okay, I'm working on this today.

The attached patches update texlive to 2017 and remove biber-2.5.
Ricardo, can you check if biber@2.7 works with these patches?