Context

With the release of https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/releases/tag/9.7.2
you added a warning banner that has side effect on mike mkdocs plugin I use

You're using standard stdout to print the banner and this banner is added to its own output...

Bug description

On mike, I use mike list to list versions managed by mike... and now in its output in addition of its standard output there is the warning which breaks my script qui parses the json output

│ ⚠ WARNING – MkDocs 2.0 is incompatible with Material for MkDocs 
 │  
 │  MkDocs 1.x is unmaintained. We recommend switching to Zensical, our 
 │  new static site generator, as soon as possible. We're providing an 
 │  analysis of the situation in this article: 
 │  
 │  https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2026/02/18/mkdocs-2.0/ 

[ 
 { 
 "version": "v0.2.1", 
 "title": "v0.2.1", 
 "aliases": [] 
 }, 
 { 
 "version": "v0.1.0", 
 "title": "v0.1.0", 
 "aliases": [] 
 } 
]

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Update the mkdocs-material with last version

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