SUMMARY After installing Kate on MacOS (Big Sur, 11.4), I am not able to run the program. A warning message appears, saying "kate.app can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information." STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Download newest release from https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/MacOS/job/Kate_Release_macos/ 2. Install 3. Attempt to open OBSERVED RESULT Warning message: "kate.app can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information." SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS macOS: 11.4
Our applications are not notarized. To start them, you need to add some exception for that, see e.g. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/373738/how-can-i-install-a-non-notarized-application-that-is-not-in-the-app-store-and-n or google for non-notarized application startup.
Please try if that works. We have at the moment no plans to support notarization.
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This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
This is literally an upstream issue, IMHO.