• Support theme-namespaced plugin loading (Support theme-namespaced plugin loading #2998)

  Plugins' entry points can be named as 'sometheme/someplugin'. That will have the following outcome:

  • If the current theme is 'sometheme', the plugin 'sometheme/someplugin' will always be preferred over 'someplugin'.
  • If the current theme isn't 'sometheme', the only way to use this plugin is by specifying plugins: [sometheme/someplugin].

  One can also specify plugins: ['/someplugin'] instead of plugins: ['someplugin'] to definitely avoid the theme-namespaced plugin.

• Bugfix: mkdocs serve will work correctly with non-ASCII paths and redirects (URL-encode paths when serving a redirect #3001)

• Windows: 'colorama' is now a dependency of MkDocs, to ensure colorful log output (Actually depend on 'colorama' on Windows #2987)

• Plugin-related config options have more reliable validation and error reporting (Refactor plugin-related config options and error reporting #2997)

• Translation sub-commands of setup.py were completely dropped. See documentation [1] [2] for their new replacements (Remove pybabel setuptools integration #2990)

• The 'mkdocs' package (wheel and source) is now produced by Hatch build system and pyproject.toml instead of setup.py (Switch to pyproject.toml and Hatch build #2988)

Other small improvements; see commit log.