boundries if the word started with a UTF-8 character.
i.e. Nilgün Özer was split into three parts (Nilgün Ö zer) instead of
two parts.

with one of the suffix identifiers
('esq','esquire','jr','sr','2','ii','iii','iv').

For example, Fujii was split into Fuj ii

https://drupal.org/node/2152759
https://drupal.org/node/2152761

disabled editing of the "name" field on the author edit form
changed the way the database tables are updated for merged authors on
the author edit form.

added merge_cid field to biblio_contributor table
added "name" index in biblio_contributor_data table

the biblio_contributor_aka_data table and that table will also be
searched when doing name lookups

version

$name->render()

in biblio_contributor.inc

_biblio_save_contributors(), this was ported from 7.x

"changed" timestamp when author information is changed

node_delete on each biblio node.  This will ensure that all related data
will be removed.

http://drupal.org/node/1932978

the <More Authors> button

drupalWebTestCase->drupalCreateNode

http://drupal.org/node/1886210

http://drupal.org/node/1801640