diff --git a/mkdocs_material-9.7.0.tar.gz b/mkdocs_material-9.7.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 6790b80..0000000
--- a/mkdocs_material-9.7.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:602b359844e906ee402b7ed9640340cf8a474420d02d8891451733b6b02314ec
-size 4094546
diff --git a/mkdocs_material-9.7.1.tar.gz b/mkdocs_material-9.7.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6d365f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mkdocs_material-9.7.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:89601b8f2c3e6c6ee0a918cc3566cb201d40bf37c3cd3c2067e26fadb8cce2b8
+size 4094392
diff --git a/python-mkdocs-material.changes b/python-mkdocs-material.changes
index 9ff2938..2c661e6 100644
--- a/python-mkdocs-material.changes
+++ b/python-mkdocs-material.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Dec 18 11:59:00 UTC 2025 - Johannes Kastl <opensuse_buildservice@ojkastl.de>
+
+- update to 9.7.1:
+  * 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
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Nov 11 10:17:05 UTC 2025 - Johannes Kastl <opensuse_buildservice@ojkastl.de>
 
diff --git a/python-mkdocs-material.spec b/python-mkdocs-material.spec
index 96bd143..7da40ca 100644
--- a/python-mkdocs-material.spec
+++ b/python-mkdocs-material.spec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 %{?sle15_python_module_pythons}
 Name:           python-mkdocs-material
-Version:        9.7.0
+Version:        9.7.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Material theme for mkdocs
 License:        MIT
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module Babel >= 2.10}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module backrefs >= 5.8}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module colorama >= 0.4}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module paginate >= 0.5}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module requests >= 2.31}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module requests >= 2.3}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 # Requirements for core