still crashing on macOS

Staffan Damm

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Oct 11, 2025, 2:52:29 PM10/11/25

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Looks like there will never be a stable version on macOS

Nir Arbel

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Oct 11, 2025, 10:41:10 PM10/11/25

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Hi Staffan, I looked over our previous conversation and did some more research. This appears to be a problem with Qt on ARM Macs in general.

One person describes the exact same crash here: https://forum.qt.io/topic/158065/crashes-on-macos-arm-using-sockets

Another person reports a very similar crash for qbittorrent on an ARM mac as well: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/21978

I thought I saw mention somewhere of the problem happening specifically with the prepackaged builds of Qt, so I built a newer version of Qt (6.9.3) locally on my laptop and built a version of SoulseekQt against that. That's all I can think of trying right now, but let me know how it works for you:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bPOJSScLsiBreLcsP_aRSbWUp8fCI8IX/view?usp=sharing

Thanks, Nir

Staffan Damm

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Oct 14, 2025, 2:50:57 PM10/14/25

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thank you Nir: seems to be working fine. three days now without a crash. will get back to you in a few more days. then you should make it an official download.

/Staffan

Nir Arbel

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Oct 14, 2025, 3:20:22 PM10/14/25

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That's great! I hope it holds up.

Brian Chamberlain

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Jan 15, 2026, 11:23:02 PMJan 15

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Hi Nir

Thanks very much for these later builds this one ( and the other one you posted previously ) just seem to work on ARM macs running latest OSes whereas the currently published release crashes a lot.

Would it be possible to sign new binary and release? There is no certs bundled here so apple doesn't trust it, its fine you can get it to start but it keeps nagging me about allowing it to access nearby computers and network drives, which the signed binary doesn.t

Thank you!

Nir Arbel

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Jan 16, 2026, 2:46:46 AMJan 16

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Thanks for reminding me, I'll have a new notarized build on the download page by the end of tomorrow.

Brian Chamberlain

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Jan 16, 2026, 12:53:46 PMJan 16

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Thank you!

Nir Arbel

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Jan 16, 2026, 11:24:46 PMJan 16

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Posted to the download page, let me know if you run into any problems.

Franklin Yertle

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Feb 7, 2026, 4:21:48 PMFeb 7

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Hello, sorry to revive an old thread, however the 2025-10-11 notarized release is not functioning well for me, there is no chance to "right click". I searched here and found an unsigned version 2025-5-18 which seems to be the latest version that is working properly.

I discovered this as I just migrated to Sequoia 15.7.3 via OpenCore Legacy Patcher, wondering if its related to that.