What's new in notarization for Mac apps

* Important deadlines for moving from the altool command line tool to the notarytool command line tool
* Improvements to the Xcode integration for Xcode 14, improving submission speed for notarization
* New Notary REST API

Deadline for moving from altool to notarytool:

Fall 2023

For assistance with migration, please see WWDC 2021 "Faster and simpler notarization for Mac apps" session:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10261/

Xcode 14 uses notarytool and will get an estimated 4 times increase in speed for submission, as compared to using Xcode 13 and altool.

Aside from upgrading to Xcode 14, no other changes are needed to see this performance increase.


REST API for the Notary service:

* Uses JSON
* Accessible from anywhere with an internet connection
* Can be used to retrieve submission history or past submission details

Designed to allow access to the Notary service from non-Apple platforms, where Xcode and notarytool can't be run today.

Authentication:

* Can use JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) to authenticate to the Notary API, like other App Store Connect APIs.