ci: notarize the macOS release binary - #1266
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Signing settles who built the binary; notarization is what Gatekeeper demands once an archive carries the quarantine bit, which is to say whenever someone downloads it in a browser rather than with curl. Without a ticket it is blocked behind a "cannot be verified" dialog that only a deliberate override gets past. Nothing is stapled and nothing rewrites the artifact: the ticket lives on Apple's side keyed to the cdhash, and stapler only writes into bundles, disk images, and installer packages. Gatekeeper resolves it online. `--wait` is not a gate on its own -- it can return zero on an Invalid submission -- so the reported status decides, parsed with plutil to keep this off jq. A rejection prints the notary log before failing. The credentials are optional: absent them the release still ships a signed binary and annotates a warning, rather than failing a release on a secret that is not configured yet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The macOS release now attempts notarization, but signing still omits the secure timestamp required for Apple notarization. Releases with credentials configured may therefore fail at notarization, so this should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ReleaseWorkflow
participant AppleNotarytool
participant AppleNotaryService
ReleaseWorkflow->>AppleNotarytool: submit signed binary archive
AppleNotarytool->>AppleNotaryService: send notarization request
AppleNotaryService-->>AppleNotarytool: return JSON status
AppleNotarytool-->>ReleaseWorkflow: return status and failure log
ReleaseWorkflow->>ReleaseWorkflow: fail unless status is Accepted
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Greptile SummaryThe PR enables hardened-runtime signing and adds a macOS-only notarization step before artifact upload.
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In @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Around line 164-170: Update the release workflow’s signing configuration to
set codesign-options to runtime and ensure the signing step invokes codesign
with both hardened runtime and secure timestamp options before archive creation;
keep the existing notarization flow unchanged.
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Review caught that the notarization step could not have worked. Apple rejects a binary without the hardened runtime, and upload-rust-binary-action only passes --options when codesign_options is set, which none of these repos set. That input is now `runtime`. Two of the binary paths were wrong. pitchfork builds under the `serious` profile, not `release`, so the copy would have failed under set -e once credentials were configured. A pre-flight check now reports a missing hardened runtime or secure timestamp before submitting, so an Invalid verdict names its cause instead of arriving unexplained. Apple stays the authority: the check warns, it does not gate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The macOS binary is signed but never submitted to Apple's notary service. Signing settles who built it; notarization is what Gatekeeper demands once an archive carries the quarantine bit — which is to say whenever someone downloads it in a browser rather than with
curl. Without a ticket it is blocked behind a "cannot be verified" dialog that only a deliberate override gets past.upload-rust-binary-actionsigns in place and archives from those same bytes, so this step submits exactly what users download. Notable choices, all commented in place:stapleronly writes into bundles, disk images, and installer packages, and this is a bare Mach-O in an archive. Gatekeeper resolves the ticket online.notarytool submit --waitcan return zero on anInvalidsubmission, so the JSONstatusdecides. A rejection printsnotarytool logbefore failing.plutilparses the JSON, notjq, so this assumes nothing about the runner image.release.ymltriggers directly on a tag push rather than throughworkflow_call, so the three secrets resolve from repository scope.Not notarizedwarning, rather than failing a release on a secret that is not configured yet.Verification
I cannot notarize for real from here, so the step was exercised against a stubbed
xcrun:ditto -c -k --norsrc --noextattrproduced a clean zip of the staged binaries, every flag reachednotarytoolintact, status parsed asAccepted, exit 0.Invalid; the step still failed and fetched the notary log, confirming the status check and not the exit code is the gate.trapleft no key or temp directory behind in any case.bash -nandshellcheckclean; the workflow parses and the step is ordered after signing and before the upload.What you need to do
Nothing in this PR works until three repository secrets exist:
APPLE_API_KEY_P8(base64 of an App Store Connect team API key.p8with the Developer role),APPLE_API_KEY_ID, andAPPLE_API_ISSUER_ID. It must be a team key —notarytooltakes an issuer only for those. Until then, releases ship signed but un-notarized and annotate a warning.This is one of several sibling PRs applying the same step across the jdx.dev CLIs. They each carry their own copy; if you would rather consolidate, a composite action would collapse all seven into one — happy to do that instead.
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Release pipeline behavior changes on macOS (new failure mode when credentials exist and notarization rejects), and optional secrets mean releases can still ship un-notarized until configured.
Overview
Adds Apple notarization to the macOS release job so browser-downloaded archives pass Gatekeeper, not just Developer ID signing.
The signing step now passes
codesign_options: runtime(hardened runtime), which Apple requires before notarization. A new Notarize macOS binary step runs only onmacos-latestafter build/sign and before artifact upload: it stages the builthkbinary, zips it withditto, submits viaxcrun notarytoolusing App Store Connect API secrets, and fails the job unless JSONstatusisAccepted(not merely a zero exit from--wait). Rejections pullnotarytool log; pre-submitcodesign --displaywarnings flag missing runtime or secure timestamp. The API key is decoded in a temp dir outside the workspace with anEXITtrap so it is not left in artifacts.If
APPLE_API_KEY_*secrets are unset, the step emits a workflow warning and skips notarization without failing the release. Release binaries are not stapled or rewritten—the notarization ticket is resolved online by Gatekeeper.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 73ccdd9. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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