The apple-codesign project has moved to https://github.com/indygreg/apple-platform-rs. This is the final release to be published from the PyOxidizer repository. All future releases can be found at https://github.com/indygreg/apple-platform-rs/releases.

Release Info

• Documentation
• Known issues and limitations
• Debugging and bug filing instructions

Changelog

• Major feature: Notarization is now implemented in Rust and no longer requires Apple's Transporter application. Going forward, you only need the rcodesign executable (or this crate embedded as a library) and an App Store Connect API Key to notarize. Major thanks to Robin Lambertz (@roblabla) for contributing the bulk of the implementation in #593.
• As a result of native notarization, integration with Apple's Transporter has been removed. The find-transporter command has been removed. Rust APIs related to Transporter, the app metadata XML format it used, and App Store Connect APIs previously used have been removed.
• As a result of native notarization, UI and implementation details of notarization have changed. The output when uploading assets is much more concise. Before, code existed to normalize uploaded assets to a data format required by Transporter. As a side-effect, assets were somewhat validated locally before upload. In the new world, minimal checks are performed locally. This can result in errors (such as attempting to upload an asset without a code signature) occurring later than they did previously.
• A new encode-app-store-connect-api-key command can be used to encode an App Store Connect API Key in a single JSON object. These keys are used for notarization and having all the API Key metadata in a single file / JSON blob means you have 1 entity to define your App Store Connect API Key instead of 3, making UI simpler.
• The notarize command has been renamed to notary-submit. This follows the terminology of Apple's notarytool and mimics the nomenclature used by the Notary API. The old notarize command is an alias to notary-submit.
• The notary-submit command now has an --api-key-path argument defining the path to a JSON file containing the unified App Store Connect API Key emitted by the encode-app-store-connect-api-key command. We recommend using this method for specifying the API Key going forward, as it is simpler. The old method was required for use with Apple's Transporter application, which we no longer use so we're no longer bound by its requirements. The old method will likely be dropped from a future release.
• A new notary-wait command can be used to wait on a previous notary submission to complete and to view its log info. This command can be useful if notary-submit times out or otherwise fails and you want to query the status of a previous notarization.
• A new notary-log command will fetch the notarization log of a previous submission from the Notary API server.
• Fixed signing of Mach-O binaries having a gap between segments. (This is known to commonly occur in Go binaries.) In previous versions, we would compute digests of the file incorrectly and would encounter an assertion when copying Mach-O data to the output binary. Both of these issues should now be fixed. (#588 and #616)
• minicbor crate upgraded from version 0.15. This created API differences in remote signing code.
• The APIs around Mach-O file parsing have been significantly overhauled. It is probably best to diff the macho module to see the full differences. There are now MachFile and MachOBinary types serving as interfaces to custom Mach-O functionality. Most code interfacing with a Mach-O file now uses these types. The AppleSignable trait has been deleted as it is no longer needed since we have the dedicated MachOBinary type.