Mac App must be notarized for macOS Catalina

[chrisdembia]

macOS Catalina requires apps to be "notarized" before a user can install them (if GateKeeper is enabled?).

Here are instructions:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizing_your_app_before_distribution

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_your_app_before_distribution/customizing_the_notarization_workflow

[aymanhab]

Thanks for the pointer @chrisdembia have you tried using Xcode 10?

[chrisdembia]

Xcode 10 has been out for a year. Xcode 11 is out now and I’ve used both.

[jenhicks]

@jimmyDunne Can you test whether you can install one of the recent artifacts on Catalina?

[chrisdembia]

I installed a recent artifact on Catalina and had no issue.

[jimmyDunne]

I also downloaded an artifact on Catalina and went smoothly. 👍

[jimmyDunne]

I went to close but realized that we should still investigate notarizing for the long term.

[jenhicks]

OK ... I am moving this out of the sprint backlog and 4.1 milestone, but, yes, we should keep this open.

[jimmyDunne]

Seems like it is working now because Apple extended the deadline to Jan 2020; https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09032019a

[chrisdembia]

@jimmyDunne the workaround you used for Moco should also work for the GUI.

This blog might help: https://scriptingosx.com/2019/09/notarize-a-command-line-tool/

[chrisdembia]

We will need to enable "hardened runtime" bu won't be able to do it through Xcode. Here's how we will do it: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/357411/enabling-hardened-runtime-from-outside-of-xcode

[aymanhab]

https://www.joelotter.com/2020/08/14/macos-java-notarization.html