chore(deps): update mkdocs-material requirement from >=9.5 to >=9.7.7

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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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Code Hygiene

The following items are defined but not yet in active use. Routine cleanup — no impact on functionality.

• laiser/llm_methods.py:87 — unused variable 'args' (100% confidence)
• laiser/llm_models/llama_cpp_handler.py:45 — unused variable 'chat_format' (100% confidence)
• laiser/llm_models/llama_cpp_handler.py:86 — unused variable 'exc' (100% confidence)
• laiser/llm_models/llama_cpp_handler.py:86 — unused variable 'exc_type' (100% confidence)
• laiser/llm_models/llama_cpp_handler.py:86 — unused variable 'tb' (100% confidence)
• laiser/llm_models/llm_router.py:71 — unused variable 'args' (100% confidence)
• laiser/llm_models/llm_router.py:86 — unused variable 'args' (100% confidence)
• laiser/llm_models/llm_router.py:89 — unused variable 'args' (100% confidence)
• laiser/services.py:132 — unused variable 'raw_description' (100% confidence)

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Complexity Analysis

Average: C — Moderate (13.75)

Hotspots tracked below. These are functional, well-exercised components — listed for visibility as the codebase scales.

Grade	Name	Type	Score
F	FAISSIndexManager.initialize_index	Method	51
E	SkillExtractionService.extract_and_align_core	Method	36
E	FAISSIndexManager.search_similar_skills	Method	32
D	ResponseParser._parse_skills_from_response	Method	24
D	FAISSIndexManager	Class	22
C	ResponseParser.parse_knowledge_task_response	Method	20
C	_BaseTaxonomyFAISSIndexManager.search_similar	Method	18
C	ResponseParser	Class	17
C	ResponseParser.parse_ksa_extraction_response	Method	16
C	ResponseParser.parse_skill_extraction_response	Method	15
C	openai_generate	Function	14
C	parse_output_vllm	Function	13
C	AlignmentService.align	Method	11
C	anthropic_generate	Function	11
C	LLMRouter._initialize_components	Method	11
B	SkillExtractionService._deduplicate	Method	10
B	load_model_from_vllm	Function	10
B	GeminiAPI.generate_with_config	Method	10
B	_BaseTaxonomyFAISSIndexManager.initialize_index	Method	9
B	ResponseParser.parse_ksa_details_response	Method	8
B	SkillExtractionService	Class	8
B	_BaseTaxonomyFAISSIndexManager	Class	8
B	llm_generate	Function	8
B	SkillExtractorRefactored._expand_allowed_sources	Method	7
B	get_completion_vllm	Function	7
B	llama_cpp_chat	Function	7
B	LLMRouter.generate	Method	7
B	AlignmentService	Class	6
B	SkillExtractionService._normalize_mixed_concept_rows	Method	6
B	fetch_model_output	Function	6
B	LlamaCppBackend.__init__	Method	6
B	GeminiAPI	Class	6