NTFSSecurity/.memory-bank/progress.md

status	last-verified	owner	source
current	2026-10-05	active-agent	repository evidence

Progress

Current status

5.0.0-rc2 is ready on eight stacked local branches from the overnight run of 2026-10-04/05; none is pushed. Each is a PR against master, merged in this order with merge commits: ai/maintenance, ai/defects-a, ai/defects-b, ai/defects-c, ai/defects-d, ai/decisions-e, ai/issue-fixes, ai/release-5.0.0-rc2. The tag 5.0.0-rc2 on the last merge commit then publishes it through CI (Decision 12). master (e0f5366) carries 5.0.0-rc1, published on 2026-10-04; the stable Gallery version is still 4.2.6.

Recent milestones

• 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-04: #91 to #97 aligned the docs with the code, shipped the help file, kept the docs on GitHub, set version 5.0.0, moved CI and a wiki generated from Docs to GitHub Actions, and completed the version history (Decisions 6 to 11).
• 2026-10-04: #98 (e0f5366) added releases on a version tag through CI (Decision 12). The tag 5.0.0-rc1 published to the Gallery and created the GitHub prerelease; the installed module passed the full suite.
• 2026-10-05, overnight run (local branches): the 24 code defects of work package 5 fixed with regression tests, plus what the reviews found: a failed retry after taking ownership left the owner changed, and -PassThru wrote objects after a failed change or under -WhatIf. Maintainer decisions D2 to D5 (Decision 13), the issues #3, #4, #17, #74, #86, and #88 fixed, the 37 open issues triaged, Docs/FAQ.md, Dependabot for the actions, and the prerelease label rc2. One security review per PR; every Major finding fixed.
• 2026-10-05, morning: the maintainer accepted the report's recommendations. #5 (Get-ChildItem2 -Attributes matches any listed attribute; an empty value is an error) and #82 (no Size alias) ship in 5.0.0 as breaking changes on ai/issue-fixes. Tests at the top branch: Windows PowerShell 423 passed, 26 skipped; PowerShell 7 394 passed, 55 skipped (449).

Stable capabilities

• 36 cmdlets: access (7), audit (5), inheritance (6), owner and security descriptor (4), privileges (3), long-path items (6), links, hash, and disk space (5).
• Works in Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7. In PowerShell 7, Get-FileHash2 lacks RIPEMD160 and MACTripleDES, which .NET lacks (on master it still fails there for every algorithm).
• Pester tests in Tests\ run in $env:TEMP sandboxes through Tests\TestHelpers.psm1; tests that need privileges skip without them and run in CI, whose runners are elevated.

Open work

1. The maintainer pushes the eight branches, opens the PRs, merges them in order, and tags 5.0.0-rc2 once CI on master is green; then tests rc2.
2. Release 5.0.0 through CI (Decision 12) after the tests: remove the label, date [Unreleased] as [5.0.0], tag 5.0.0 (steps in Docs/Contributing/05-Releasing.md; CI warns when the changelog date isn't the release day).
3. Repository settings: the hardening proposed on 2026-10-04 isn't applied yet (checked 2026-10-05); the maintainer applies it before pushing the stack. The details are with the maintainer, not in the repository.
4. Open bugs from the triage: #34 and #67 (the write includes owner and group; fix/#34 swallows every error) for rc3 if a file server to test against is available; #41 (a drive root reads the device object) and #90 (a trailing space in a folder name) after 5.0.0. Enhancements: #22, #49, #68, #77, #87.
5. pwsh 7.6.1 crashed three times during test runs on the ARM64 workstation (x64 emulation) with an access violation in coreclr.dll or System.Management.Automation.dll, without module frames; not reproducible on demand. Check whether CI on native x64 shows it.
6. Minor review findings that the PRs list but don't fix, for example Copy-Item2 -WhatIf reporting a destination conflict as an error, and relative path forms that the *-Item2 cmdlets resolve themselves; the maintainer tracks the useful ones as issues.
7. Optional for the maintainer: delete the AppVeyor project and revoke its GitHub authorization, restrict wiki editing to collaborators, and ask Sup3rlativ3 to delete the Read the Docs project.