[Qgis-psc] QGIS macOS builds for 3.44

[Matthias Kuhn]

Dear PSC,

I have worked on macOS builds for QGIS 3.44.

These builds include:

 - Recent dependencies (see below)
 - Native Intel and arm support (universal binaries)
 - Packaged as a dmg installer
 - Notarized with OSGeo certificates

The source code had to be heavily patched with backports from code that was
merged to master only after QGIS 3.44 had been branched.
The build pipeline
<https://github.com/m-kuhn/QGIS/tree/refs/heads/qt5-qgis-3-44> for QGIS
3.44 is therefore something I do not intend to merge into the release-3_44
branch and therefore have it on my own fork and the build can be downloaded
from there too:

QGIS 3.44.4 download:
https://github.com/m-kuhn/QGIS/releases/download/final-3_44_4/QGIS-final-3_44_4.dmg
.

Notarization is now done using an OSGeo certificate (big thanks to Michael
Smith for the support).

- The notarization for Qt6 nightly builds (and future QGIS 4 releases) is
done in github actions in this repository
https://github.com/qgis/qgis-notarize
- The notarization for Qt5 based QGIS 3.44 releases is done in this
repository https://github.com/m-kuhn/qgis-notarize

There are still a few limitations which have come up in our internal
testing, most notably UI translation isn't working yet.
Furthermore, there has been a request to bundle more python for data
science ().
I am still working on addressing these shortcomings, I expect more requests
to come up which I'll address as time permits.

Since there are no officially maintained macOS releases available at the
moment, I would like to publish these on the official QGIS download page.
To publish the packages to the download page, I'd be happy to get some
support (uploading to a server / changing download links). Who would be the
right person to talk to?

Thanks a lot for trusting me with this task.

Kind regards
Matthias

Qt version

5.15.18

Python version

3.12.11

GDAL version

3.11.4 — Eganville

PROJ version

9.7.0

EPSG Registry database version

v12.022 (2025-08-30)

GEOS version

3.14.1-CAPI-1.20.5

SQLite version

3.50.4

PDAL version

2.9.2

PostgreSQL client version

16.9

SpatiaLite version

5.1.0

QWT version

6.2.1

QScintilla2 version

2.13.4

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