diff --git a/community/biber/APKBUILD b/community/biber/APKBUILD
index fd966bacd6f1cd4f756e304790245fd3571f6a1f..c3a2469e050dd0b56e8ffc880fc6999daf8df770 100644
--- a/community/biber/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/biber/APKBUILD
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Contributor: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
 # Maintainer: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=biber
-pkgver=2.8
-pkgrel=1
+pkgver=2.9
+pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Backend processor for BibLaTeX"
 url="https://github.com/plk/biber"
 arch="noarch"
@@ -50,4 +50,4 @@ package() {
     find "$pkgdir" \( -name perllocal.pod -o -name .packlist \) -delete
 }
 
-sha512sums="8b329a315e4471785551a350bc7b89344084797aa61f783868a64e4966d2624021820f3984d87b75e929e4bebfbd23a82844b4a52f4b323295c24f8e642ed39c  biber-2.8.tar.gz"
+sha512sums="7b6ecde88b47753426d7b76b369b026be312f4eab36fa73f5cdafa8e5720bd8e993a1e553b9429516cb2c98955b71962efcfec4d5b790561585ae678a291f7e0  biber-2.9.tar.gz"