The following tools were used to build the pdf version of my dissertation:
$ xelatex -version
XeTeX 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3-2013080616 (TeX Live 2013)
kpathsea version 6.1.1
Copyright 2013 SIL International and Jonathan Kew.
There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the XeTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the XeTeX source.
Primary author of XeTeX: Jonathan Kew.
Compiled with ICU version 51.2; using 51.2
Compiled with zlib version 1.2.8; using 1.2.8
Compiled with FreeType2 version 2.4.12; using 2.4.12
Compiled with Graphite2 version 1.2.1; using 1.2.1
Compiled with HarfBuzz version 0.9.18; using 0.9.18
Compiled with fontconfig version 2.10.92; using 2.10.92
Compiled with libpng version 1.6.3; using 1.6.3
Compiled with poppler version 0.22.5
$ biber -version
biber version: 1.7
All included packages were those distributed with the TeXLive 2013 packages of the Gentoo portage tree.
To build the pdf, latexmk was used:
$ latexmk -pdf dissertation_dale_lukas_peterson.tex