diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 733fbcc..f52ce5d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ dev = [
 ]
 # Material for MkDocs 9.x targets MkDocs 1.x; avoid resolving an incompatible
 # future MkDocs 2 release in documentation and CI environments.
-docs = ["mkdocs>=1.5,<2", "mkdocs-material>=9.5"]
+docs = ["mkdocs>=1.6.1,<2", "mkdocs-material>=9.5"]
 notebooks = ["jupyter>=1.0", "nbformat>=5.10", "nbclient>=0.10", "ipykernel>=6.29"]
 
 [project.scripts]