diff --git a/dev-python/mkdocs-material/Manifest b/dev-python/mkdocs-material/Manifest
index 28fb38ae8a777..02ae11e296c14 100644
--- a/dev-python/mkdocs-material/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/mkdocs-material/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+DIST mkdocs-material-9.6.10.gh.tar.gz 14812031 BLAKE2B 505d6585d99aabd1b97f3853173aaf83085c58064c0f76d91517e92de311d52e7ae3c6c2ed71c66bbf013e88d6b38ae5eab64799076238bd46e2e36b745541b7 SHA512 c2589ccc0ffe21217d57fb91a5e247c026f2c32496767a72d604152c80913e03d015291fe3a31891618e53c167348c2cd08db5b986ac0c8c820e091f381d596d
 DIST mkdocs-material-9.6.8.gh.tar.gz 14926223 BLAKE2B ce5f0ccc1f19787bbf631f0e71f1b252920e32b6e99616066c18d417e5086f8f612411fb8ba41909df8ee1fc24907879ec87234c42cd8fd6088555b46b7c7d67 SHA512 26d9677d95903c4c3a7890decb11557168dbf26c1fbd7ba1406bebf29a813283ccf43c7173a69136508ff753d61fad2ee3f49a897514fb7f6fa914070d2570b6
 DIST mkdocs-material-9.6.9.gh.tar.gz 14809122 BLAKE2B 14c07f44c93de9c74ca6ee64b9be0ef2b7c06f40fa3bca95fbd935cec783ee16d02c50c77ed6b0b62fddaa9f0dcba769db1d86ca4da4363aa48c4940d5eb83f9 SHA512 166c7a5fe445e07286ccc36040a3caf4e070ad86fbcb556fa380ed91b6adfd96c881762f0cb7b96ee1f5d04ff4d65018ad119973e07920c8dd037f32c1322c46
diff --git a/dev-python/mkdocs-material/mkdocs-material-9.6.10.ebuild b/dev-python/mkdocs-material/mkdocs-material-9.6.10.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..60f0fcd96617d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/mkdocs-material/mkdocs-material-9.6.10.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 pypy3_11 python3_{10..13} )
+
+DOCS_BUILDER="mkdocs"
+DOCS_DEPEND="
+	dev-python/mkdocs-material-extensions
+	dev-python/mkdocs-minify-plugin
+	dev-python/mkdocs-redirects
+"
+
+inherit distutils-r1 docs
+
+DESCRIPTION="A Material Design theme for MkDocs"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/
+	https://pypi.org/project/mkdocs-material/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/squidfunk/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+IUSE="social"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/babel-2.10.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/colorama-0.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/jinja2-3.0.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/lxml-4.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/markdown-3.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/mkdocs-1.5.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/paginate-0.5.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pygments-2.16[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pymdown-extensions-10.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/readtime-2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		>=dev-python/regex-2022.4.24[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	' 'python*')
+	>=dev-python/requests-2.26[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	social? (
+		>=dev-python/pillow-10.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=media-gfx/cairosvg-2.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/trove-classifiers-2023.10.18[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+# mkdocs-material-extensions depends on mkdocs-material creating a circular dep
+PDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/mkdocs-material-extensions-1.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	# simplify pyproject to remove extra deps for metadata
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-8.5.7-simplify-build.patch"
+	# import backrefs only when used (i.e. never)
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-9.6.7-backrefs.patch"
+)
+
+src_prepare() {
+	echo "__version__ = '${PV}'" > gentoo_version.py || die
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+}