Frequent crashes with JASP 0.95.1 on Apple Silicon (M2 Pro)

Hi JASP team,

I am a university student experiencing frequent and abrupt crashes with JASP version 0.95.1 on my Mac. I completely uninstalled version 0.19.3 before doing a clean install of 0.95.1 for the new semester.

The crashes occur even when I create a brand new .jasp file, by loading a .csv dataset and doing all analyses in one file.

I checked the macOS crash report, and it looks like an architecture alignment issue with the Qt framework on Apple Silicon. The exception is an EXC_ARM_DA_ALIGN (SIGBUS) occurring in thread CrBrowserMain (specifically during a Garbage Collection transition in QtQml / QV4::GCStateMachine::transition()). I have attached the full crash report text file to this post for your reference.

During my previous semester, I was using the version 0.19.3 and never encountered this problem. I am tempted to downgrade back to 0.19.3 to be able to work without these interruptions (which, in addition to being annoying, also frequently cause the loss of any unsaved changes). However, our teaching assistants are using JASP 0.95.1 on Windows, and have warned us that older versions of JASP might not be able to open newer files. If I install 0.19.3 on my Mac, will I be able to properly open their .jasp files (created in 0.95.1 on Windows) ? Or do you have any other workaround suggestions ?

System Details: Macbook Pro (Apple M2 Pro), macOS Tahoe 26.3.1, JASP 0.95.1

Thank you so much for your help and for looking into this,

Mila