Prepare 9.7.1 release

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+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
@@ -20,24 +26,24 @@ 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)
-- Fixed #8519: Vector accents do not render when using KaTeX
+  * 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)
+  * Fixed #8519: Vector accents do not render when using KaTeX
 
 mkdocs-material-9.6.23 (2025-11-01)
 

docs/changelog/index.md

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 ## Material for MkDocs
 
+### 9.7.1 <small>December 18, 2025</small> { id="9.7.1" }
+
+- 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
+
 ### 9.7.0 <small>November 11, 2025</small> { id="9.7.0" }
 
 !!! warning "Material for MkDocs is now in maintenance mode"

material/__init__.py

@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@
 # FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
 # IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-__version__ = "9.7.0"
+__version__ = "9.7.1"

material/templates/base.html

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
         <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="{{ lang.t('rss.updated') }}" href="{{ 'feed_rss_updated.xml' | url }}">
       {% endif %}
       <link rel="icon" href="{{ config.theme.favicon | url }}">
-      <meta name="generator" content="mkdocs-{{ mkdocs_version }}, mkdocs-material-9.7.0">
+      <meta name="generator" content="mkdocs-{{ mkdocs_version }}, mkdocs-material-9.7.1">
     {% endblock %}
     {% block htmltitle %}
       {% if page.meta and page.meta.title %}

package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "mkdocs-material",
-  "version": "9.7.0",
+  "version": "9.7.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 2,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "mkdocs-material",
-      "version": "9.7.0",
+      "version": "9.7.1",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "clipboard": "^2.0.11",

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mkdocs-material",
-  "version": "9.7.0",
+  "version": "9.7.1",
   "description": "Documentation that simply works",
   "keywords": [
     "mkdocs",