diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/biber/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/biber/default.nix
index d19838f9ff06..8dd4e98e0e13 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/biber/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/biber/default.nix
@@ -1,21 +1,24 @@
 { stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, perlPackages }:
 
+# builds but doesn't work with perl 5.24, see discussion in #40826
+# TODO: build with perl >=5.26 and try to enable tests
+
 perlPackages.buildPerlModule rec {
   name = "biber-${version}";
-  version = "2.7";
+  version = "2.10";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "plk";
     repo = "biber";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "04jmsh59g2s0b61rm25z0hwb6yliqyh5gjs4y74va93d2b9mrd17";
+    sha256 = "0f6bb1iprl92iamxqlr8fc99mxr9n3722frd1ak9pbzh3m6c2ny6";
   };
 
   buildInputs = with perlPackages; [
     autovivification BusinessISBN BusinessISMN BusinessISSN ConfigAutoConf
     DataCompare DataDump DateSimple EncodeEUCJPASCII EncodeHanExtra EncodeJIS2K
     DateTime DateTimeFormatBuilder DateTimeCalendarJulian
-    ExtUtilsLibBuilder FileSlurp FileWhich IPCRun3 LogLog4perl LWPProtocolHttps ListAllUtils
+    ExtUtilsLibBuilder FileSlurper FileWhich IPCRun3 LogLog4perl LWPProtocolHttps ListAllUtils
     ListMoreUtils MozillaCA ReadonlyXS RegexpCommon TextBibTeX
     UnicodeCollate UnicodeLineBreak URI XMLLibXMLSimple XMLLibXSLT XMLWriter
     ClassAccessor TextCSV TextCSV_XS TextRoman DataUniqid LinguaTranslit UnicodeNormalize SortKey