diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9c10eba55..6ae258bb8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1418,14 +1418,13 @@ checksum = "e47641d3deaf41fb1538ac1f54735925e275eaf3bf4d55c81b137fba797e5cbb"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "comrak"
-version = "0.44.0"
+version = "0.46.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "07fcaf1ac457de7574ce514fd9a68e86e8196165529f48a544ec90cbea840e04"
+checksum = "dc151d9c800c4fadd542c949b84c1dae6d1b424315ebcfd154e611d4f7910a97"
 dependencies = [
  "caseless",
  "entities",
- "memchr",
- "slug",
+ "jetscii",
  "typed-arena",
  "unicode_categories",
 ]
@@ -4551,6 +4550,12 @@ version = "1.0.15"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "4a5f13b858c8d314ee3e8f639011f7ccefe71f97f96e50151fb991f267928e2c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "jetscii"
+version = "0.5.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "47f142fe24a9c9944451e8349de0a56af5f3e7226dc46f3ed4d4ecc0b85af75e"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "jiff"
 version = "0.2.15"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 662db9272..727b3cad0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ docsrs-metadata = { path = "crates/metadata" }
 anyhow = { version = "1.0.42", features = ["backtrace"]}
 backtrace = "0.3.61"
 thiserror = "2.0.3"
-comrak = { version = "0.44.0", default-features = false }
+comrak = { version = "0.46.0", default-features = false }
 syntect = { version = "5.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["parsing", "html", "dump-load", "regex-onig"] }
 toml = "0.9.2"
 prometheus = { version = "0.14.0", default-features = false }
diff --git a/src/web/markdown.rs b/src/web/markdown.rs
index a44ade19c..79998b6c4 100644
--- a/src/web/markdown.rs
+++ b/src/web/markdown.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 use crate::web::highlight;
-use comrak::{
-    ExtensionOptions, Options, Plugins, RenderPlugins, adapters::SyntaxHighlighterAdapter,
-};
-use std::{collections::HashMap, fmt};
+use comrak::{Options, adapters::SyntaxHighlighterAdapter, options};
+use std::{borrow::Cow, collections::HashMap, fmt};
+
+type Attributes<'s> = HashMap<&'static str, std::borrow::Cow<'s, str>>;
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
 struct CodeAdapter<F>(F, Option<&'static str>);
@@ -22,41 +22,42 @@ impl<F: Fn(Option<&str>, &str, Option<&str>) -> String + Send + Sync> SyntaxHigh
         write!(output, "{}", (self.0)(lang, code, self.1))
     }
 
-    fn write_pre_tag(
+    fn write_pre_tag<'s>(
         &self,
         output: &mut dyn fmt::Write,
-        attributes: HashMap<String, String>,
-    ) -> Result<(), fmt::Error> {
+        attributes: Attributes<'s>,
+    ) -> fmt::Result {
         write_opening_tag(output, "pre", &attributes)
     }
 
-    fn write_code_tag(
+    fn write_code_tag<'s>(
         &self,
         output: &mut dyn fmt::Write,
-        attributes: HashMap<String, String>,
-    ) -> Result<(), fmt::Error> {
+        attributes: Attributes<'s>,
+    ) -> fmt::Result {
         // similarly to above, since comrak does not treat `,` as an info-string delimiter it will
         // try to apply `class="language-rust,ignore"` for the info-string `rust,ignore`, so we
         // have to detect that case and fixup the class here
         // TODO: https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/issues/246
         let mut attributes = attributes;
         if let Some(classes) = attributes.get_mut("class") {
-            *classes = classes
+            let mut updated: String = classes
                 .split(' ')
                 .flat_map(|class| [class.split(',').next().unwrap_or(class), " "])
                 .collect();
             // remove trailing ' '
             // TODO: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/79524 or itertools
-            classes.pop();
+            updated.pop();
+            *classes = Cow::Owned(updated);
         }
         write_opening_tag(output, "code", &attributes)
     }
 }
 
-fn write_opening_tag(
+fn write_opening_tag<'s>(
     output: &mut dyn fmt::Write,
     tag: &str,
-    attributes: &HashMap<String, String>,
+    attributes: &Attributes<'s>,
 ) -> Result<(), fmt::Error> {
     write!(output, "<{tag}")?;
     for (attr, val) in attributes {
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ fn render_with_highlighter(
     comrak::markdown_to_html_with_plugins(
         text,
         &Options {
-            extension: ExtensionOptions {
+            extension: options::Extension {
                 superscript: true,
                 table: true,
                 autolink: true,
@@ -85,8 +86,8 @@ fn render_with_highlighter(
             },
             ..Default::default()
         },
-        &Plugins {
-            render: RenderPlugins {
+        &options::Plugins {
+            render: options::RenderPlugins {
                 codefence_syntax_highlighter: Some(&code_adapter),
                 ..Default::default()
             },