chore(deps): update mkdocs-material requirement from <9.7,>=9.6 to >=9.6,<9.8

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Updates the requirements on mkdocs-material to permit the latest version.

Release notes

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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)

Changelog

Sourced from mkdocs-material's changelog.

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
• Added support for configurable log level in privacy plugin
• Added support for processing of external links in privacy plugin
• Added support for automatic image optimization via optimize plugin
• Added support for navigation paths (breadcrumbs)

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Commits

• e21a119 Updated changelog
• d5654b5 Prepare 9.7.2 release
• b18af2f Opened up version ranges in optional dependencies
• 39cdfbd Added social card for blog post
• 09ee7b1 Added blog post on MkDocs 2.0 (#8564)
• 0d11a2d Documentation (#8560)
• 8fc61b5 Updated dependencies
• 3f0eaca Documentation
• eaba2dc Re-enable publishing
• 7e236f6 Temporarily disable publishing
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