the daemon slept, and then crawls out with the excellent:
Name of contribution: biber Author's name: Philip Kime
Location on CTAN: biblio/biber/ Summary description: Biber is a BibTeX replacement for biblatex License type: artistic
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
Version 0.7.3 has support for re-encoding of UTF-8 <-> TeX macros to help people using PDFLaTeX and the incomplete subset of UTF-8 which inputenc supports.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biber.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/biber/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team