https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1512848
--- Comment #1 from Colin Macdonald cbm@m.fsf.org --- Thanks! Unfortunately, its not trivial to cherry-pick, so this might take me some time :(
What really should be done is split texlive-biblatex out of the monolithic texlive spec. Than both biblatex and biber could be bumped as upstream updates them.