Bump mkdocs-material from 8.5.11 to 9.7.3

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Bumps mkdocs-material from 8.5.11 to 9.7.3.

Release notes

Sourced from mkdocs-material's releases.

mkdocs-material-9.7.2

[!WARNING]

Material for MkDocs is in maintenance mode

Going forward, the Material for MkDocs team focuses on Zensical, a next-gen static site generator built from first principles. We will provide critical bug fixes and security updates for Material for MkDocs until November 2026.

Read the full announcement on our blog

Changes

• Opened up version ranges of optional dependencies for forward-compatibility
• Added warning to mkdocs build about impending MkDocs 2.0 incompatibility (doesn't affect strict mode)

mkdocs-material-9.7.1

[!WARNING]

Material for MkDocs is in maintenance mode

Going forward, the Material for MkDocs team focuses on Zensical, a next-gen static site generator built from first principles. We will provide critical bug fixes and security updates for Material for MkDocs until November 2026.

Read the full announcement on our blog

Changes

• Updated requests to 2.30+ to mitigate CVE in urllib
• Fixed privacy plugin not picking up protocol-relative URLs
• Fixed #8542: false positives and negatives captured in privacy plugin

mkdocs-material-9.7.0

[!WARNING]

Material for MkDocs is now in maintenance mode

This is the last release of Material for MkDocs that will receive new features. Going forward, the Material for MkDocs team focuses on Zensical, a next-gen static site generator built from first principles. We will provide critical bug fixes and security updates for Material for MkDocs for 12 months at least.

Read the full announcement on our blog

This release includes all features that were previously exclusive to the Insiders edition. These features are now freely available to everyone.

Note on deprecated plugins: The [projects] and [typeset] plugins are included in this release, but must be considered deprecated. Both plugins proved unsustainable to maintain and represent architectural dead ends. They are provided as-is without ongoing support.

Changes:

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Changelog

Sourced from mkdocs-material's changelog.

mkdocs-material-9.7.3 (2026-02-24)

• Fixed #8567: Print MkDocs 2.0 incompatibility warning to stderr

mkdocs-material-9.7.2 (2026-02-18)

• Opened up version ranges of optional dependencies for forward-compatibility
• Added warning to 'mkdocs build' about impending MkDocs 2.0 incompatibility

mkdocs-material-9.7.1 (2025-12-18)

• Updated requests to 2.30+ to mitigate CVE in urllib
• Fixed privacy plugin not picking up protocol-relative URLs
• Fixed #8542: false positives and negatives captured in privacy plugin

mkdocs-material-9.7.0 (2025-11-11)

⚠️ Material for MkDocs is now in maintenance mode

This is the last release of Material for MkDocs that will receive new features. Going forward, the Material for MkDocs team focuses on Zensical, a next-gen static site generator built from first principles. We will provide critical bug fixes and security updates for Material for MkDocs for 12 months at least.

Read the full announcement on our blog: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2025/11/05/zensical/

This release includes all features that were previously exclusive to the Insiders edition. These features are now freely available to everyone.

Note on deprecated plugins: The projects and typeset plugins are included in this release, but must be considered deprecated. Both plugins proved unsustainable to maintain and represent architectural dead ends. They are provided as-is without ongoing support.

Changes:

• Added support for pinned blog posts and author profiles
• Added support for customizing pagination for blog index pages
• Added support for customizing blog category sort order
• Added support for staying on page when switching languages
• Added support for disabling tags in table of contents
• Added support for nested tags and shadow tags
• Added support for footnote tooltips
• Added support for instant previews
• Added support for instant prefetching
• Added support for custom social card layouts
• Added support for custom social card background images
• Added support for selectable rangs in code blocks
• Added support for custom selectors for code annotations

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Upgrade guide

Sourced from mkdocs-material's upgrade guide.

How to upgrade

Upgrade to the latest version with:

pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall mkdocs-material

Show the currently installed version with:

pip show mkdocs-material

Upgrading from 8.x to 9.x

This major release includes a brand new search implementation that is faster and allows for rich previews, advanced tokenization and better highlighting. It was available as part of Insiders for over a year, and now that the funding goal was hit, makes its way into the community edition.

Changes to mkdocs.yml

content.code.copy

The copy-to-clipboard buttons are now opt-in and can be enabled or disabled per block. If you wish to enable them for all code blocks, add the following lines to mkdocs.yml:

theme:
  features:
    - content.code.copy

content.action.*

A "view source" button can be shown next to the "edit this page" button, both of which must now be explicitly enabled. Add the following lines to mkdocs.yml:

theme:
  features:
    - content.action.edit
    - content.action.view

navigation.footer

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Commits

• da5d442 Prepare 9.7.3 release
• 03e8bae Fixed order of imports
• 70dee38 Switched warning message to print to stderr
• b78109b Updated blog post on MkDocs 2.0
• e1dd2c8 Updated blog post on MkDocs 2.0
• 6972761 Updated blog post on MkDocs 2.0
• e21a119 Updated changelog
• d5654b5 Prepare 9.7.2 release
• b18af2f Opened up version ranges in optional dependencies
• 39cdfbd Added social card for blog post
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