[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] MacOS Qt6 builds / Notarization

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Marco,

It's prominently placed in the readme of the linked notarization repository.

But having it right at hand here for convenience makes sense:


https://nightly.link/opengisch/qgis-notarize/workflows/notarize/main/QGIS-master.zip

Matthias

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:

> Great news Matthias?
>
> What is the permalink? I agree we should expose the test builds to as much
> testing as possible.
>
> Cheers Marco
>
> Marco Bernasocchi
>
> QGIS.org Chair
> OSGEO.org VP Europe
> OPENGIS.ch CEO
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>
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2025, 08:24 Matthias Kuhn via QGIS-PSC, <
> qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This has been merged and qt6 macos packages are now built from master and
>> for every pull request.
>>
>> I also created a workflow to produce *notarized nightly builds* which
>> can be downloaded from the notarization repository
>> <https://github.com/opengisch/qgis-notarize/?tab=readme-ov-file#get-it>.
>>
>> There is a permalink to the builds which also works without a github
>> account. I would propose that we include this on the download page (with a
>> name like QGIS 4 preview builds or similar).
>>
>> Bests
>> Matthias
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM Dieter Komendera <dieter at komendera.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>
>>> thank you for the effort! I’ve been running the arm64 builds from the
>>> #60039 PR now for about half a year with very positive results. The biggest
>>> challenges were the lacking Qt6 plugin compatibility.
>>>
>>> I’m now running the notarized builds linked below and can confirm they
>>> work with no apparent problems on macOS 15.5 (24F74) with an M2 Pro.
>>>
>>> All the best
>>> Dieter
>>>
>>> > On 12.06.2025, at 16:33, Matthias Kuhn via QGIS-Developer <
>>> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Dear all,
>>> >
>>> > Over the last few months I've made good progress on the mac build
>>> front.
>>> > Since the beginning of the year, a pull request has been open that
>>> builds QGIS against recent, updated dependencies and Qt6 and creates a dmg
>>> installer for download.
>>> > These packages provide universal binaries that work natively on Intel
>>> x64 and ARM machines.
>>> >
>>> > Overall, the feedback of testers has been encouraging and many things
>>> could already be ironed out.
>>> >
>>> > Since last week it is now also possible to download notarized versions
>>> of these builds. The scripts are in
>>> https://github.com/opengisch/qgis-notarize/ and in the actions on this
>>> repository, the notarized packages can be downloaded and we also have
>>> encouraging feedback there.
>>> > Eventually I would like to only notarize releases (and not pull
>>> requests) and use an OSGEO certificate (not the current OPENGIS.ch one) and
>>> produce the packages on a repository under the qgis organization. I'll
>>> handle that in the upcoming weeks.
>>> >
>>> > Since this is a complete refactoring and cleanup of the mac build
>>> chain, it would break the current Qt5 builds and was therefore not merged
>>> to not break releases on the QGIS 3 series.
>>> >
>>> > With the last minor release QGIS 3 approaching, I would like to
>>> proceed with merging this right after 3.44 has been branched off. The pull
>>> request is rather large so it's good if this has a long cooldown period
>>> before it's released with QGIS 4 later this year. Whoever feels comfortable
>>> reviewing cmake code changes, please do so before Friday next week, June 20.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks a lot and best wishes
>>> > Matthias
>>> >
>>> > --
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