Problem with Installer being quarantined on MacOS

[David Blaymires]

Hi,

Late in 2021 two things occurred - Apple changed their requirements in the Apple Developer program (we had to accept new terms and conditions) and we had to create new developer certificates for the notarizing process.  We build our application integrating our xcomps into the bundle, customising the logo, name, building the contents of the First Run folder etc and build a ZIP file that is then uploaded to Apple for notarizing.

Once we receive the successful notarizing notification back, we then use Install Builder to build our application installer which is downloaded automatically by existing copies of JobBag and run without any problem.  However when the resulting installer is downloaded from a website, the checks that Apple is doing as part of the download process is resulting in the installer being quarantined, and the only way to release it is to run the terminal command.  Frustrating.

Has anyone else come across this problem and been able to solve it?  I’m sure we are missing something very simple but it is so blindingly obvious we can’t see it.

Regards,

David Blaymires
CEO : Instinct Systems : JobBag

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