docs: update mkdocs-material requirement from >=9.5 to >=9.7.7 in /docs

[dependabot]

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

Release notes

Sourced from mkdocs-material's releases.

mkdocs-material-9.7.7

[!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.

Changelog

Sourced from mkdocs-material's changelog.

mkdocs-material-9.7.7 (2026-07-17)

• Fixed DOM-based XSS vulnerability in search suggestions

mkdocs-material-9.7.6 (2026-03-19)

• Automatically disable MkDocs 2.0 warning for forks of MkDocs

mkdocs-material-9.7.5 (2026-03-10)

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

mkdocs-material-9.7.4 (2026-03-03)

• Hardened social cards plugin by switching to sandboxed environment
• Updated MkDocs 2.0 incompatibility warning

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

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Commits

• b3e6dd8 Prepare 9.7.7 release
• 52fb6be Merge commit from fork
• 901e633 Added SECURITY.md with EOL notice
• 5b36f2a Bump js-yaml from 4.1.1 to 4.2.0 (#8598)
• 2d11e7b Bump form-data from 3.0.4 to 3.0.5 (#8597)
• ae05a53 Bump esbuild from 0.27.2 to 0.28.1 (#8596)
• 434af93 Bump shell-quote from 1.7.3 to 1.8.4 (#8593)
• 4447cda Documentation (#8590)
• 8f8d551 Updated copyright year (#8588)
• 08d8514 Bump fast-uri from 3.0.3 to 3.1.2 (#8587)
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