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biber and biblatex incompatible versions

I'm using Texmaker and the configuration PDFLatex > Bib(la)tex > 2x PDFLatex > View PDF for Quick Build.

But after compiling I get the following error:

INFO - This is Biber 2.17 INFO - Logfile is 'paper.blg' INFO - Reading 'paper.bcf' ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.7, expected version 3.8. This means that your biber (2.17) and biblatex (3.15a) versions are incompatible. See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation. INFO - ERRORS: 1

I checked the biber docs pdf and the latest compatible versions are Biber version 2.17 and Biblatex version 3.17.

Using MiKTeX Console I updated both (see images below) but TexMaker doesn't seem to care...

Any ideas on how to get it to compile it correctly?

biblatex package information biber package information

EDIT: As requested the content of the .log-file:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.24 (MiKTeX 22.3) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2022.4.16)  17 APR 2022 07:55
entering extended mode
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
**./paper.tex
(paper.tex
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Document Class: IEEEtran 2015/08/26 V1.8b by Michael Shell
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-- http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/
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(paper.aux)
\openout1 = `paper.aux'.

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LaTeX Warning: Citation `ref1' on page 1 undefined on input line 48.

(paper.bbl)

** Conference Paper **
Before submitting the final camera ready copy, remember to:

 1. Manually equalize the lengths of two columns on the last page
 of your paper;

 2. Ensure that any PostScript and/or PDF output post-processing
 uses only Type 1 fonts and that every step in the generation
 process uses the appropriate paper size.

[1{C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/fonts/map/pdftex/pdftex.map}



]
(paper.aux)

LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.

 ) 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 4160 strings out of 478541
 65167 string characters out of 2849516
 361035 words of memory out of 3000000
 22347 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
 507238 words of font info for 100 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
 1141 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 55i,8n,62p,288b,266s stack positions out of 10000i,1000n,20000p,200000b,80000s
{C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/fonts/enc/dvips/base/8r.enc}<C:/Program Files/Mi
KTeX 2.9/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmb8a.pfb><C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/fonts/ty
pe1/urw/times/utmbi8a.pfb><C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/fonts/type1/urw/times/ut
mr8a.pfb><C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmri8a.pfb>
Output written on paper.pdf (1 page, 56334 bytes).
PDF statistics:
 27 PDF objects out of 1000 (max. 8388607)
 0 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 500000)
 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000)

EDIT 2: After changing biber % to bibtex % in the Commands Settings of Texmaker (I changed it based on this post), the minimal working example looks like this (eventhough the references are still empty...):

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
%\IEEEoverridecommandlockouts
% The preceding line is only needed to identify funding in the first footnote. If that is unneeded, please comment it out.
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\def\BibTeX{{\rm B\kern-.05em{\sc i\kern-.025em b}\kern-.08em
    T\kern-.1667em\lower.7ex\hbox{E}\kern-.125emX}}
\begin{document}

\title{Paper}

\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{to-do}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{to-do} \\
\textit{to-do}\\
to-do\\
to-do}
}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
This document is a model and instructions for \LaTeX.
This and the IEEEtran.cls file define the components of your paper [title, text, heads, etc.]. *CRITICAL: Do Not Use Symbols, Special Characters, Footnotes, 
or Math in Paper Title or Abstract.
\end{abstract}

\begin{IEEEkeywords}
keywords
\end{IEEEkeywords}

\section{Introduction}
This document is a model and instructions for \LaTeX.
Please observe the conference page limits. \cite{ref1}

\section*{References}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{refs}

\end{document}

The output pdf looks like this: output pdf

Solution

  • After changing from biber to bibtex in the Texmaker settings, the references were still empty.
    The entry in my .bib file had the wrong format.
    Correcting it yielded a correct output.