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Lab acceptance of 5.0.0-rc7

Acceptance of the release candidate 5.0.0-rc7 in the lab, on 2026-10-08, before the pull request. It follows the procedure in the README.

The candidate holds the behavior changes that Phase 2 of the quality gate found, which the agent decided as assumptions for the maintainer's review, and the fixes of one review. A run of the code of 4ee01e5, packaged before the commit that sets the label, so that it reported 5.0.0-rc6, passed; the review then led to 7936d9f to dc6e9f5. The first run of dc6e9f5 started without the checkpoint of step 3, so it was repeated after the checkpoint. This record describes the repeated run of dc6e9f5, the last commit of the branch that changes the module, and names the results of the earlier runs.

Candidate

  • Branch ai/release-5.0.0-rc7, commit dc6e9f5359bb02bd173dc2174dd7bca8add2df86, 10 commits on be04cb7 (the head of the pull request of 5.0.0-rc6, #115).
  • Release build of that commit, packaged with .github\scripts\New-ModulePackage.ps1. The live tests imported the module from the extracted NTFSSecurity.zip. CI builds the packages that the tag publishes again, so their hashes differ; the live tests run once more against the published package.
SHA-256 File
2273126D91A1A737F0EDF8350A7E90FFC4FD7CB6A1AEA8306874FC8517349C3C NTFSSecurity.5.0.0-rc7.nupkg
38B39930D92EF3FCD03FD60E05E678D5645C77BB34EA677E053F78F779ECE668 NTFSSecurity.zip
710C83A498700AA36DAE02272E2556EEC58655DE7CA5570CE870F64DFBAF53A9 NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.dll
8876D0AFE2156581FE31369982DD9A117FFE38C52179409FC11AC95A9A3D68C1 NTFSSecurity\Security2.dll
902157ABBD2E0B76DA744A918BDD174D5226C3494908ABA75F9E5DE28AE6A008 NTFSSecurity\ProcessPrivileges.dll
E2077AFEB38703345AE7857C1266F8B26E167ED887BFFAC8C8169A8F267BE6E9 NTFSSecurity\PrivilegeControl.dll
A8DA47194AB0F71232C69D01955AD93BA73C7ECEB58D0DE800CA085D4A2E18D8 NTFSSecurity\AlphaFS.dll
968514234BAAF16789A560C86A6F701F69E91262F1EAB62142DDF6D05A8D2A52 NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.psd1
3F777E9D141EE0046119DA9D5ECF88A3BC7E023726098FE2FB150528E2FB59B8 NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.psm1
59583423241951EBE0FC2D8237D0C28C3ECC8C7CD2C115D2660F8579888632FC NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.Init.ps1
FB0920CC37ED858F55AFD54998DC854E27FBBE6A0177CB059CB03CFE91361197 NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.format.ps1xml
CB6882FF91E6716605D5599E7B464C3346E461216ACED07E847621738F04FB9B NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.types.ps1xml
3550E659932EE61A96C6049477C14FE08F131114104BBCB9551C4B1AEA605816 NTFSSecurity\en-US\NTFSSecurity.dll-Help.xml

Tests without a lab

The Pester suite of 1063b29, 712 tests, against the same build; the commits after dc6e9f5 change only tests. No test failed, and every test ran in at least one configuration.

Configuration Passed Failed Skipped
Windows PowerShell 5.1, elevated 688 0 24
PowerShell 7, elevated 658 0 54
Windows PowerShell 5.1, basic user 612 0 100
PowerShell 7, basic user 582 0 130

Lab

WindowsAccessControlLab (AutomatedLab on Hyper-V). Every machine runs Windows Server 2025 Datacenter (10.0.26100).

Machine Domain Role in the tests
F1ADC1 a.forest1.net Domain controller of the accounts
F1AFile1 a.forest1.net Client that runs the tests
F1AFile2 a.forest1.net File server with the share
F1BDC1 b.forest1.net Account of another domain of the forest
F2DC1 forest2.net Account of another forest
F3DC1 forest3.net Account of another forest

Readiness, checked before the run: WinRM answered on all six machines. The four domain controllers answered LDAP (RootDSE, synchronized) and issued a Kerberos ticket for krbtgt. The client and the file server found a domain controller, had a working secure channel, and got a service ticket for each other. The clocks were 4.2 to 4.9 seconds ahead of the host.

Checkpoints (Production) of the six machines, taken before the run: ntfs-rc7-dc6e9f5-before-acceptance (16:24 UTC).

Results

Invoke-NTFSSecurityLabTest.ps1 -ModulePath <extracted package> in both editions, 16:24 to 16:40 UTC. The module reported version 5.0.0-rc7 in every role that loads it.

Edition Role Passed Failed Skipped
Windows PowerShell 5.1 Delegate 38 0 0
Windows PowerShell 5.1 ServerAdmin 13 0 0
Windows PowerShell 5.1 Admin 40 0 0
Windows PowerShell 5.1 Server 72 0 1
PowerShell 7 Delegate 38 0 0
PowerShell 7 ServerAdmin 13 0 0
PowerShell 7 Admin 40 0 0
PowerShell 7 Server 72 0 1

The role Server skips the check of the module version, because it doesn't load the module. The accounts of the other domain and forests were B\NtfsLiveForeign, forest2\NtfsLiveForeign, and forest3\NtfsLiveForeign; their 13 tests passed in both editions.

The earlier runs had the same counts and no failure: the code of 4ee01e5 from 15:32 to 15:49 UTC, and the first run of dc6e9f5, without a checkpoint, from 16:04 to 16:20 UTC.

Baseline

The published 5.0.0-rc6 from the PowerShell Gallery, whose hash the script checks against the one the Gallery publishes, in both editions, 20:43 to 21:00 UTC, with the same live tests. It failed one test in each edition, the warning of Get-NTFSEffectiveAccess for a computer that can't be reached, which names the computer since 5.0.0-rc7: Admin 39 passed and 1 failed; Delegate 38, ServerAdmin 13, and Server 72 with 1 skipped passed. The live tests find no other difference between the two versions; the local tests cover the other changes of 5.0.0-rc7.

Cleanup

Invoke-NTFSSecurityLabTest.ps1 -RemoveFixture at 16:21 UTC, after the first two runs, at 16:44 UTC, after the acceptance, and at 21:03 UTC, after the baseline. Each check compared the lab with the 10 SIDs of the fixture's accounts and groups, read before the removal, which found the fixture. After each removal:

  • No domain has the organizational unit NTFSSecurityLive or an account whose name starts with NtfsLive.
  • The file server has no share NTFSSecurityLive, no folder C:\NTFSSecurityLive or C:\NTFSSecurityLab, and no local group NtfsLiveLocal.
  • The client has no folder C:\NTFSSecurityLab.
  • On both machines, Administrators, Access Control Assistance Operators, and Remote Management Users have no member of the fixture, and no profile of the fixture's accounts is left.

The checkpoint stays on the six machines until the maintainer deletes it.

Not covered

  • Other operating systems than Windows Server 2025, such as a Windows 11 client and Server 2019 or 2022 file servers: Phase 3 of the quality gate.
  • File servers that aren't Windows, such as the IBM ESS system of #34: only the feedback of the reporter covers them.
  • A folder that Move-Item2 moves from the client to the share, another volume on another computer: the local tests move folders to \\localhost\C$, another volume over SMB on the same computer.
  • The package that CI publishes for the tag: the live tests run against it after the release, with -Version 5.0.0-rc7.