Prepare 9.3.0 release

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+mkdocs-material-9.3.0 (2023-09-11)
+
+  * Improved configuration sharing between community and Insiders edition
+  * Added built-in group plugin for enabling plugins conditionally
+  * Added new settings in tags plugin for enabling/disabling
+  * Dropped support for Python 3.7 (EOL)
+
 mkdocs-material-9.2.8+insiders-4.40.4 (2023-09-04)
 
   * Fixed privacy plugin choking on boolean HTML5 attributes

docs/changelog/index.md

@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 ## Material for MkDocs
 
+### 9.3.0 <small>September 11, 2023</small> { id="9.3.0" }
+
+- Improved configuration sharing between community and Insiders edition
+- Added built-in group plugin for enabling plugins conditionally
+- Added new settings in tags plugin for enabling/disabling
+- Dropped support for Python 3.7 (EOL)
+
 ### 9.2.8 <small>September 4, 2023</small> { id="9.2.8" }
 
 - Updated Italian and Russian translations

docs/insiders/getting-started.md

@@ -150,65 +150,77 @@ pip install --upgrade git+https://${GH_TOKEN}@github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-materi
 
   [upgrade guide]: ../upgrade.md
 
-## Caveats
+## Built-in plugins
 
-This section describes some aspects to consider when using Insiders together
-with Material for MkDocs to ensure that users without access to Insiders can
-still build your documentation.
-
-### Built-in plugins
-
-When using built-in plugins that are solely available via Insiders, it might be 
-necessary to split the `mkdocs.yml` configuration into a base configuration, and
-one with plugin overrides. Note that this is a limitation of MkDocs, which can
-be mitigated by using [configuration inheritance]:
-
-=== ":octicons-file-code-16: `mkdocs.insiders.yml`"
-
-    ``` yaml
-    INHERIT: mkdocs.yml
-    plugins:
-      - search
-      - social
-      - tags
-    ```
-
-=== ":octicons-file-code-16: `mkdocs.yml`"
-
-    ``` yaml
-    # Configuration with everything except Insiders plugins
-    ```
-
-Now, when you're in an environment with access to Insiders (e.g. in your CI
-pipeline), you can build your documentation project with the following lines:
-
-```
-mkdocs build --config-file mkdocs.insiders.yml
-```
-
-!!! tip "Sharing plugin and extension configuration"
-
-    If you want to share `plugins` or `markdown_extensions` between both
-    configuration files `mkdocs.insiders.yml` and `mkdocs.yml`, you can use
-    the alternative key-value syntax in both files. The above example would
-    then look like:
-
-    === ":octicons-file-code-16: `mkdocs.insiders.yml`"
-
-        ``` yaml
-        INHERIT: mkdocs.yml
-        plugins:
-          social: {}
-        ```
-
-    === ":octicons-file-code-16: `mkdocs.yml`"
-
-        ``` yaml
-        # Additional configuration above
-        plugins:
-          search: {}
-          tags: {}
-        ```
+When you're using built-in plugins that are solely available via Insiders,
+outside contributors won't be able to build your documentation project on their
+local machine. This is the reason why we developed the [built-in group plugin]
+that allows to conditionally load plugins.
 
+  [^1]:
+    Previously we recommended to use [configuration inheritance] to work around
+    this limitations, but the brand new [built-in group plugin] is a much better
+    approach, as it allows you to use a single configuration file for building
+    your project with the community edition and Insiders version of Material
+    for MkDocs.
 
+  [built-in group plugin]: #built-in-group-plugin
   [configuration inheritance]: https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#configuration-inheritance
+
+### Built-in group plugin
+
+[:octicons-tag-24: 9.3.0][Group plugin support] ·
+:octicons-cpu-24: Plugin ·
+:octicons-beaker-24: Experimental
+
+The built-in group plugin adds support for conditionally loading plugins based
+on environments. This makes enabling and disabling of multiple plugins much
+simpler, as you can group them into logical units and enable or disable them
+with an [environment variable]:
+
+``` yaml
+plugins:
+  - group:
+      enabled: !ENV CI
+      plugins:
+        - optimize
+        - minify
+```
+
+[`enabled`](#+group.enabled){ #+group.enabled }
+
+:   :octicons-milestone-24: Default: `false` – This option specifies whether
+    the plugin is enabled when building your project. By default, the plugin is
+    disabled, so you can use an [environment variable]:
+
+    ``` yaml
+    plugins:
+      - group:
+          enabled: !ENV CI
+    ```
+
+    Now, If you invoke MkDocs with that environment variable (or export the
+    environment variable before invoking MkDocs), the plugin will be enabled:
+
+    ``` sh
+    CI=true mkdocs build
+    ```
+
+[`plugins`](#+group.plugins){ #+group.plugins }
+
+:   :octicons-milestone-24: Default: _none_ – This option specifies the plugins
+    that the group plugin should load when enabled. Note that the plugins must
+    be specified as a list, even if there's only one plugin:
+
+    ``` yaml
+    plugins:
+      - group:
+          plugins:
+            - optimize
+            - minify
+    ```
+
+    The syntax is exactly the same as for all other plugins.
+
+  [Group plugin support]: https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/releases/tag/9.3.0
+  [environment variable]: https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#environment-variables

docs/schema/plugins.json

@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
         {
           "$ref": "plugins/blog.json"
         },
+        {
+          "$ref": "plugins/group.json"
+        },
         {
           "$ref": "plugins/info.json"
         },

docs/schema/plugins/group.json

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema",
+  "title": "Built-in group plugin",
+  "oneOf": [
+    {
+      "type": "object",
+      "properties": {
+        "group": {
+          "markdownDescription": "https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/insiders/getting-started/#built-in-group-plugin",
+          "type": "object",
+          "properties": {
+            "enabled": {
+              "title": "Enable plugin",
+              "markdownDescription": "https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/insiders/getting-started/#+group.enabled",
+              "type": "boolean",
+              "default": true
+            },
+            "plugins": {
+              "$ref": "../plugins.json"
+            }
+          },
+          "additionalProperties": false
+        }
+      },
+      "additionalProperties": false
+    }
+  ]
+}

material/base.html

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="{{ lang.t('rss.updated') }}" href="{{ 'feed_rss_updated.xml' | url }}">
       {% endif %}
       <link rel="icon" href="{{ config.theme.favicon | url }}">
-      <meta name="generator" content="mkdocs-{{ mkdocs_version }}, mkdocs-material-9.2.8">
+      <meta name="generator" content="mkdocs-{{ mkdocs_version }}, mkdocs-material-9.3.0">
     {% endblock %}
     {% block htmltitle %}
       {% if page.meta and page.meta.title %}

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mkdocs-material",
-  "version": "9.2.8",
+  "version": "9.3.0",
   "description": "Documentation that simply works",
   "keywords": [
     "mkdocs",

pyproject.toml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ dynamic = [
   "keywords"
 ]
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.7"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
 classifiers = [
   "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
   "Environment :: Web Environment",