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Lab acceptance of 5.0.0-rc6

Acceptance of the release candidate 5.0.0-rc6 in the lab, on 2026-10-08, before the pull request. It follows the procedure in the README.

Candidate

  • Branch ai/release-5.0.0-rc6, commit acfe3af4cf184e6b12b0bf9b20a8a4d65149b01c, 26 commits on fcb370e (5.0.0-rc5).
  • 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
30F9694556CB3ADB57D0455AC8E917FA7DC405770DAD3F8C37F42337AECE6374 NTFSSecurity.5.0.0-rc6.nupkg
2A1E5482A67167658A33C7977D7251681F25D4EA437C06B441B5EAAC1016EF55 NTFSSecurity.zip
D308BD24061DEBB633F7A11C924D6347457C530924ACDD4893BEA48BEC58B63E NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.dll
32C8EA2A55F8721F7953A4E1DE382E1DA6D1CD4BBA844347DD1CA4DA38661D04 NTFSSecurity\Security2.dll
902157ABBD2E0B76DA744A918BDD174D5226C3494908ABA75F9E5DE28AE6A008 NTFSSecurity\ProcessPrivileges.dll
E2077AFEB38703345AE7857C1266F8B26E167ED887BFFAC8C8169A8F267BE6E9 NTFSSecurity\PrivilegeControl.dll
A8DA47194AB0F71232C69D01955AD93BA73C7ECEB58D0DE800CA085D4A2E18D8 NTFSSecurity\AlphaFS.dll
75DA9F7A54DF7011968BACB3FDF5E30B33F4C078861D1DF87BC06F5E64A962D8 NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.psd1
3F777E9D141EE0046119DA9D5ECF88A3BC7E023726098FE2FB150528E2FB59B8 NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.psm1
59583423241951EBE0FC2D8237D0C28C3ECC8C7CD2C115D2660F8579888632FC NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.Init.ps1
FB0920CC37ED858F55AFD54998DC854E27FBBE6A0177CB059CB03CFE91361197 NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.format.ps1xml
CB6882FF91E6716605D5599E7B464C3346E461216ACED07E847621738F04FB9B NTFSSecurity\NTFSSecurity.types.ps1xml
DF9657E224E1DDA6D933099A3A09F7E794391B307FD4DDD1C8358049961BF146 NTFSSecurity\en-US\NTFSSecurity.dll-Help.xml

Tests without a lab

The Pester suite of the commit, 657 tests, against the same build. No test failed, and every test ran in at least one configuration.

Configuration Passed Failed Skipped
Windows PowerShell 5.1, elevated 635 0 22
PowerShell 7, elevated 605 0 52
Windows PowerShell 5.1, basic user 566 0 91
PowerShell 7, basic user 536 0 121

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, 11:06 to 11:07 UTC: 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 4.3 to 5.0 seconds ahead of the host.

Checkpoint ntfs-rc6-acfe3af-before-acceptance (Production) of the six machines, taken 11:07 to 11:08 UTC before the run.

Results

Invoke-NTFSSecurityLabTest.ps1 -ModulePath <extracted package> in both editions, 11:08 to 11:25 UTC. The module reported version 5.0.0-rc6 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.

Baseline

The published 5.0.0-rc5 from the PowerShell Gallery, whose hash the script checks against the one the Gallery publishes, in Windows PowerShell 5.1, 11:26 to 11:34 UTC: Delegate 38 passed, ServerAdmin 13, Admin 38 passed and 2 failed, Server 72 passed and 1 skipped. The two failures are the defect that 5.0.0-rc6 fixes: on the share, Get-NTFSHardLink and New-NTFSHardLink -PassThru stopped with the terminating error "(50) The request is not supported" instead of writing a GetHardLinkError. The new cases find no other difference between the two versions; the local tests cover the other fixes of 5.0.0-rc6.

Cleanup

Invoke-NTFSSecurityLabTest.ps1 -RemoveFixture, 11:38 UTC, after the baseline. The check compared the lab with the 10 SIDs of the fixture's accounts and groups, read before the removal; the same check had found the fixture before the 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 ntfs-rc6-acfe3af-before-acceptance 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.
  • The package that CI publishes for the tag: the live tests run against it after the release, with -Version 5.0.0-rc6.