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

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Lorenzo,

Thanks for the feedback.
The build pipeline for mac builds has recently been updated to include
newer dependencies and have a general overhaul.
Most things are in place, but there are a few things still outstanding. In
the latest version 3.44.6, a few additional python packages have already
been added.
Also the qgis_process binary is now fixed and functional.
qgis_server was consciously not added, as we assumed that the dmg is mostly
meant for desktop use and for server deployment most people would resort to
a package manager like MacPorts which is also listed on the download page.
If there is a good reason to add it also to the dmg, this can be
considered, otherwise we should explicitly point to MacPorts for QGIS
server.

What we are still missing are mostly data science packages with binary
dependencies which are a bit more complex to build. They will appear again
as soon as possible.
PyQt5.QtWebKit is particularly unfortunate because it's not something that
could be pip installed but is also not trivial to build and deprecated.

Please visit
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3AmacOS,
there are a few issues already open. Please open new issues for the pieces
that are still missing.

Kind regards
Matthias


On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM Lorenzo Moretti via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> 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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