# Material for MkDocs: documentation framework with an end-of-life notice, README overview

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- updated: 2026-11-07T16:31:50.209Z
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The README presents Material for MkDocs as a Markdown documentation theme and framework, now heading to end of life.

Source: https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material

What it supplies: The README presents Material for MkDocs as a Markdown documentation theme and framework, now heading to end of life.

Useful for: - Build a documentation site from Markdown with the material theme.
- Evaluate Zensical as the maintained successor using the same mkdocs.yml.

First action: - Run pip install mkdocs-material on Python 3.11 or newer.
- Set the theme name to material in mkdocs.yml.

Prerequisites and limits: Python 3.11 or newer. The project reaches end of life on May 5, 2027.

- End of life on May 5, 2027, with only critical fixes until then.
- New projects should consider the successor named in the README.

Source-documented: MIT License.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on opening, end-of-life warning, quick start and licence heading README text only; other sections were not read. Nothing was installed or run.

Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/7590e14da9fcab7c81bb2496a4c3389f0901988e/README.md ; 4676 bytes ; sha256 548271ab139289e024accca33614118fcd88eaf7fd49f6f5b153eb1e7c4f1dd5 ; 5 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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