mkdocs-material-9.2.8

• Updated Italian and Russian translations
• Fixed #5952: Combining blog and tags plugin leads to wrong links
• Fixed #5951: Blog plugin ignores post title in metadata
• Fixed #5949: Blog plugin ignores post linked in nav

mkdocs-material-9.2.7

• Switched dependencies to compatible release clauses
• Removed readtime and lxml dependencies for blog plugin
• Reduced size of Docker image to improve CI build performance
• Fixed #5945: Incorrect footer navigation for sibling pages of blog
• Fixed #5939: Page jumps when changing color palette (Firefox 117)
• Fixed #5901: Announcement bar reappears when using instant loading
• Fixed #5824: Allow to customize styles of sequence diagrams

mkdocs-material-9.2.6

• Added Basque translations
• Added template for simple redirects
• Improved blog plugin interop by moving view generation to on_files
• Fixed #5924: Social plugin still checks dependencies when disabled
• Fixed #5916: Blog plugin crashes on Python 3.8 (9.2.0 regression)

mkdocs-material-9.2.5

• Fixed error in dirty serve mode when using blog plugin
• Fixed page title not being consistent in blog plugin pagination
• Fixed #5899: Blog plugin pagination breaks when disabling directory URLs

mkdocs-material-9.2.4

• Added version to bug report name in info plugin
• Updated Afrikaans translations

mkdocs-material-9.2.3

• Fixed blog plugin rendering wrongly with markdown.extensions.toc
• Fixed blog plugin entrypoint generation

mkdocs-material-9.2.2

• Fixed #5880: Blog plugin failing when building a standalone blog
• Fixed #5881: Blog plugin not compatible with Python < 3.10

mkdocs-material-9.2.1

• Fixed #5879: Blog plugin failing when building a standalone blog
• Fixed error in blog plugin when using draft tagging on future date
• Fixed error in blog plugin when toc extension is not enabled

mkdocs-material-9.2.0

Additions and improvements

• Added blogging support via built-in blog plugin
• Added support for Chinese language segmentaiton in search plugin
• Added support for adding custom dates to blog posts
• Added support for paginating archive and category pages
• Added support for annotations (outside of code blocks)
• Added support for navigation icons
• Added support for navigation pruning
• Added support for navigation status
• Added support for customizing site icons
• Added support for customizing (code) annotation icons
• Added focus outline to admonitions and details
• Added prompt for bug report name to info plugin
• Added Luxembourgish translations
• Improved rendering of (code) annotation markers
• Improved print styles for (code) annotations
• Improved customizability of navigation tabs
• Improved interop of plugins with external tools like mike
• Improved interop of blog plugin with awesome pages plugin
• Improved header partial by moving buttons into separate partials
• Improved clarity of site_url warning in social plugin
• Improved blog plugin to automatically setup directory structure
• Switched info plugin to importlib to mitigate deprecations
• Automatically download ResizeObserver polyfill when necessary
• Automatically add iframe-worker polyfill when necessary in offline plugin
• Automatically focus and bring up keyboard on touch devices
• Updated Serbo-Croatian translations
• Updated MkDocs to 1.5.2

Removals

• Removed Universal Analytics integration
• Removed ancient polyfills to reduce size of bundled JavaScript by 20%
• Removed necessity for Array.flat and Array.flatMap polyfill
• Removed announcement bar button when JavaScript is not available

Fixes

• Fixed rendering of tags when announcement bar is present
• Fixed tags plugin rendering pages excluded by other plugins
• Fixed #5132: Blog plugin requires nav entry in mkdocs.yml
• Fixed #5599: Insufficient contrast for default link color
• Fixed #5715: Blog plugin missing integrated table of contents in pagination
• Fixed #5806: Version selector not hoverable on some Android devices
• Fixed #5826: Blog post drafts with tags show up in tags index

mkdocs-material-9.2.0b3

Note – This is a beta release, so please test thoroughly before deploying to production.

• Added support for adding date of last update to blog posts
• Fixed #5599: Insufficient contrast for default link color