[Qgis-psc] QGIS macOS builds for 3.44

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Matthias,

This is great news. Thanks for your efforts!

I have two questions:

- we still have a MacOS server at Untangled. Are you actively using this
server or could we cancel/shutdown this server?
- once you consider the notarized Qt5 QGIS 3.44 stable - could we
officially host it at the QGIS website?

Thank you very much,
Andreas


On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 07:56, Matthias Kuhn via QGIS-PSC <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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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>
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Andreas Neumann
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