v9.4.0

A big thanks to the 19 contributors who made this release possible. Here are some highlights ✨:

• ♿️ Opt in to a consistent keyboard focus ring across components with the new theme.focusVisible.
• ♿️ The Tooltip now supports disabled button triggers without an extra wrapper element.

@mui/material@9.4.0

• [theme] Add theme.focusVisible opt-in keyboard focus ring (#48743) @siriwatknp
• [buttongroup] Prevent sticky hover border on touch devices (#48993) @petr-kratochvil
• [l10n] Complete Traditional Chinese localization (#48946) @nrps9909
• [menulist] Preserve custom list padding when adjusting for the scrollbar (#48707) @creazyfrog
• [pagination] Manage focus whenever first / last / next / previous buttons become disabled (#48877) @silviuaavram
• [tooltip] Improve support for disabled button triggers (#48622) @mayank99

@mui/utils@9.4.0

• Fix resolveProps to correctly merge slotProps defined as functions (#48955) @mnajdova
• Replace deprecated clip CSS property with clip-path (#48966) @ZeeshanTamboli

@mui/styled-engine-sc@9.4.0

• Fix types for components extended with styled (#45988) @megos

Docs

• Bump @docsearch/react to ^4.7.0 (#48886) @LukasTy
• Fix broken links reported by Ahrefs (#48949) @brijeshb42
• Manage focus on Open in Chat button click (#48942) @silviuaavram
• Move focus to the main content with the skip link (#48944) @lazerg
• Use relative link for LICENSE in README (#49040) @loulanyue
• [autocomplete] Remove the "aria-owns" reference (#48958) @silviuaavram
• [table] Fix wrong number of rows reported to screen readers (#47653) @seomsoo
• [table] Reference DataGrid link in the row header section (#48988) @silviuaavram
• [table] Use and document the row header cells (#48965) @silviuaavram
• [tabs] Make tab panel focusable and show keep mounted examples (#48939) @silviuaavram
• [templates] Remove focusable links from hidden carousel slides (#49003) @gonzoblasco

Core

• [code-infra] Fix team sync review requests (#48914) @brijeshb42
• [code-infra] Import the test globals from vitest (#49033) @JCQuintas
• [code-infra] Point the support validator link at frontend-public (#49041) @Janpot
• [code-infra] Update CircleCI orb (#49030) @Janpot
• [code-infra] Use ESM current directory syntax for Vitest config (#49032) @ZeeshanTamboli
• [core] Use @typescript/typescript6 for the docs tooling (#49025) @Janpot
• [core-docs] Remove the globalSelector stylis middleware (#49029) @Janpot
• [test] Add an assertions mode to the axe regression harness (#48915) @michelengelen
• [test] Automate the CSS-dependent WCAG criteria (#48936) @michelengelen
• [test] Fail the regression run when a webfont does not load (#48948) @LukasTy
• [test] Fix typo 'overriden' -> 'overridden' in Alert test comment (#48987) @FirmaSpring
• [test] Replace webfontloader with the CSS Font Loading API (#48995) @LukasTy
• [test] Skip the CrudDashboard VRT on React 18 (#49027) @Janpot
• [test] Use the shared loadFonts from @mui/internal-test-utils (#49007) @LukasTy
• [test] Use the Vitest global expect instead of importing chai (#48996) @JCQuintas
• [test][tooltip] Keep the disabled trigger away from the real pointer (#48947) @LukasTy

All contributors of this release in alphabetical order: @brijeshb42, @creazyfrog, @FirmaSpring, @gonzoblasco, @Janpot, @JCQuintas, @lazerg, @loulanyue, @LukasTy, @mayank99, @megos, @michelengelen, @mnajdova, @nrps9909, @petr-kratochvil, @seomsoo, @silviuaavram, @siriwatknp, @ZeeshanTamboli