Fwd: [Qgis-psc] QGIS macOS builds for 3.44

[Emma Hain]

Hi All

Information for those who are Mac Users.

Kind regards

Em

Emma Hain — Product Manager/Senior GIS Analyst
em...@north-road.com

North Road Cartography • Development • Spatial Analysis north-road.com FOSS4G 2025 17-23 November, Auckland, New Zealand

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From: Matthias Kuhn via QGIS-PSC <qgis...@lists.osgeo.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 16:56
Subject: [Qgis-psc] QGIS macOS builds for 3.44
To: qgis-psc <qgis...@lists.osgeo.org>

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 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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Matthias Kuhn Mr. Noproblemo CTO | Co-Founder matt...@opengis.ch opengis.ch

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