{"id":106148,"date":"2019-12-23T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=12232019a"},"modified":"2019-12-23T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:00:00","slug":"update-to-notarization-prerequisites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/23\/update-to-notarization-prerequisites\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to Notarization Prerequisites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June, we announced that all Mac software distributed outside the Mac App Store must be notarized by Apple in order to run by default on macOS&nbsp;Catalina. In September, we temporarily adjusted the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=09032019a\">notarization prerequisites<\/a> to make this transition easier and to protect users on macOS&nbsp;Catalina who continue to use older versions of software. Starting February 3, 2020, all submitted software must meet the original notarization prerequisites.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t yet done so, upload your software to the notary service and review the developer log for warnings. These warnings will become errors starting February 3 and must be fixed in order to have your software notarized. Software notarized before February 3 will continue to run by default on macOS&nbsp;Catalina.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, all installer packages must be signed since they may contain executable code. Disk images do not need to be signed, although signing them can help your users verify their contents.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"nowrap\"><a class=\"icon icon-after icon-chevronright\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/developer-id\/\">Learn about notarizing software<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, we announced that all Mac software distributed outside the Mac App Store must be notarized by Apple in order to run by default on macOS&nbsp;Catalina. In September, we temporarily adjusted the notarization prerequisites to make this transition easier and to protect users on macOS&nbsp;Catalina who continue to use older versions of software. Starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}