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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
mkdocs-material (changelog)	==9.7.0 → ==9.8.0

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Release Notes

squidfunk/mkdocs-material (mkdocs-material)

v9.8.0: mkdocs-material-9.8.0

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[!WARNING]

Material for MkDocs reaches end of life on May 5, 2027. Critical fixes and security updates continue until that date.

We're continuing our work with Zensical, a maintained successor built by the team behind Material for MkDocs. It carries forward what we've learned from building documentation tools with this community, with Markdown authoring, a familiar design, and full control over your content. Zensical is Open Source and MIT-licensed.

You can evaluate Zensical alongside MkDocs using your existing mkdocs.yml. Check plugin compatibility and compare your pages, navigation, search, and customizations before switching. The classic theme variant preserves the appearance of Material for MkDocs. See the migration guide for the steps and current compatibility details.

Upcoming changes on November 5

This is primarily a security release. It raises dependency minimums to address known vulnerabilities. We recommend upgrading to this release and updating your dependency lockfiles.

Python 3.11 or newer is now required. Python 3.8–3.10 are no longer supported.

• Updated Node build-time dependencies to fix vulnerabilities
• Updated Python dependency minimums and required Python 3.11
• Removed RSS from recommended dependencies
• Updated project status and maintenance links
• Updated CLI notice with end-of-life and migration guidance
• Removed redirects from recommended dependencies

Previous dependency ranges allowed versions with known vulnerabilities. The new minimums cover core Python dependencies and the optional git and imaging extras, including GitPython 3.2.1 or newer for the git extra.

Recent releases of mkdocs-rss-plugin and mkdocs-redirects depend on ProperDocs, a separate static site generator that Material for MkDocs does not require. Removing these plugins from the recommended extra keeps its dependency footprint smaller and leaves the choice of additional tools to each project. If your project uses RSS feeds or redirects, declare the relevant plugin explicitly in your own dependencies.

The CLI notice now gives the May 5, 2027 end-of-life date and links to the Zensical migration guide. It also clarifies that third-party ProperDocs migration notices do not represent a recommendation from the Material for MkDocs team. Package metadata now marks the project as inactive and includes maintenance and migration links.

Selected Python security advisories addressed by the new minimums:

Dependency	Affected versions	New minimum	Advisory
Jinja2	<=3.1.5	3.1.6	CVE-2025-27516
Markdown	<3.8.1	3.8.1	CVE-2025-69534
Pygments	<2.20.0	2.20.0	CVE-2026-4539
PyMdown Extensions	<=11.0.0	11.0.1	CVE-2026-67422
Requests	<2.33.0	2.33.0	CVE-2026-25645
Pillow	<13.0.0	13.0.0	CVE-2026-96636
CairoSVG	<=2.9.0	2.9.1	CVE-2026-107378
GitPython	<=3.2.0	3.2.1	CVE-2026-114145

Pillow and CairoSVG apply to the imaging extra; GitPython applies to the git extra.

v9.7.7: mkdocs-material-9.7.7

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[!WARNING]

Material for MkDocs is approaching end of life

Material for MkDocs is scheduled to reach end of life on November 5, 2026. Until then, maintenance is limited to critical bug fixes and security updates. After this date, the project will remain available on PyPI and GitHub, but no further maintenance is planned except in exceptional circumstances.

For users looking for a long-term, actively developed successor, we're building Zensical – a next-generation static site generator designed for technical documentation. If you're planning a new documentation project or evaluating your long-term options, we invite you to take a look.

Organizations requiring support beyond this date are welcome to get in touch to discuss available options.

Read the full announcement on our blog

Changes

• Fixed a DOM-based XSS vulnerability in search suggestions

Thanks to @​p- for responsibly reporting this issue.

v9.7.6: mkdocs-material-9.7.6

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[!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

• Automatically disable MkDocs 2.0 warning for forks of MkDocs

v9.7.5: mkdocs-material-9.7.5

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[!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

• Limited version range of mkdocs to <2
• Updated MkDocs 2.0 incompatibility warning (clarify relation with MkDocs)

v9.7.4: mkdocs-material-9.7.4

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[!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

• Hardened social cards plugin by switching to sandboxed environment (recommended by @​caveeroo)
• Updated MkDocs 2.0 incompatibility warning

v9.7.3: mkdocs-material-9.7.3

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[!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

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

v9.7.2: mkdocs-material-9.7.2

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[!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)

v9.7.1: mkdocs-material-9.7.1

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[!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

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