[QGIS-Developer] Information about the latest version of QGIS for MacOS - 3.44.5

[Jacky Volpes]

Hi Lorenzo,

About QtWebKit, unfortunately, it is now more than deprecated, and is
not present anymore. Some QGIS features depending on it will need to be
refactored.

I think about the attachment form widget Web preview mode which will not
work for instance (see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/63391).

As you mentioned DataPlotly plugin, a branch to support QGIS 4 with Qt6
and switch from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine is under development. I use this
version at the moment.

https://github.com/ghtmtt/DataPlotly/tree/qt6

Regards,
Jacky


On Tue Dec 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM CET, Lorenzo Moretti via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> I downloaded the latest version of QGIS for MacOS and I have to thank you because it is finally a version with updated internal libraries and multi-architecture for Intel and Apple Silicon. Above all, with ARM processors, you can really notice the difference in speed both when opening and running the program. The leap in performance is truly remarkable.
>
> In general, you have included many Python libraries within this application that are necessary to run most of the plugins, but some are missing. They can of course be installed with the command:
> % /Applications/QGIS-final-3_44_5.app/Contents/MacOS/python -m pip install pythonlib
> However, with each new version of QGIS, you have to do it all over again. Among those to be installed to make various plugins work are scipy, plotly, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn, astropy, netCDF4, and others.
>
> The other missing libraries needed to run some plugins, including DataPlotly, are Python libraries for the Qt environment: PyQt5.QtWebKit and PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets. They seem to be deprecated, but unfortunately they are necessary. I was unable to install them.
>
> Non-functioning executables: the “qgis_process” program. You have inserted it into QGIS, but once executed from the terminal, everything freezes and several library connection errors appear.
>
> Packages not present: “qgis_server”. In the old version, Intel only, the server part was there and worked. Here it is not present.
>
> Anyway, thanks again for this fantastic version ahead of the future version 4.
> Lorenzo




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Jacky Volpes - Oslandia
Ingénieur développeur SIG

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