LaTeX error with CSLReferences in Pandoc >= 3.1.7

[bastistician]

rmarkdown::render()ing the article template fails when using recent versions of Pandoc (>= 3.1.7), presumably due to changes in its LaTeX writer with respect to the CSLReferences environment.

With Pandoc 3.1.7, the error is (as previously reported in #113)

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \cslentryspacing 
                            
l.84 \setlength{\cslentryspacing}{0em}

With Pandoc 3.1.8 to 3.1.11.1 (current) the error is

! LaTeX Error: Lonely \item--perhaps a missing list environment.

In Pandoc 3.1.6.2, the LaTeX writer had produced, e.g.,

\leavevmode\vadjust pre{\hypertarget{ref-crosstalk}{}}%

to open a new bib item, whereas it now (Pandoc >= 3.1.7) produces

\bibitem[\citeproctext]{ref-crosstalk}

This is incompatible with the outdated definition of CSLReferences in RJwrapper.tex.
See the changes in Pandoc's default LaTeX template between 3.1.6.2 and 3.1.11.1.

[dicook]

Thanks! We need to update csl to better match the referencing between pdf and html versions. So this is extra motivation to work on that.

[ngreifer]

Should anyone else spend hours upon hours finding a solution, mine was to run

pandoc::with_pandoc_version(
    version = '3.1.6.2',
    rmarkdown::render('article.Rmd')
)

Thanks for the lead @bastistician.

[BerriJ]

This seems related to: Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template#361
They fixed the problem here: https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template/pull/364/files