[Qgis-psc] QGIS macOS builds for 3.44

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Andreas,

- I do not use the macOS server (and I do not have access to it),
everything is done on github hosted macOS runners so far. I would be
interested in getting access to a macOS machine for a self-hosted runner
(particularly because building qtwebengine might be too much for the github
hosted ones). Is that server an arm based one?
- We can host it at the QGIS website at any time, I'll need some
instructions on how the interface to that server works. Who should this be
discussed with?

Best regards
Matthias

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> wrote:

> 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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>>
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