# ruflo v3.38.14 — v3.38.14 — memory_store tags cache-loss fix (#3051)

- Product: ruflo (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ruflo)
- Vendor: ruflo
- Date: 2026-08-21
- Version: v3.38.14
- Original notes: https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/releases/tag/v3.38.14
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ruflo/releases/v3.38.14

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- **fixed** — memory_store would accept tags array but memory_retrieve and memory_list would return tags as empty array due to partial write-through cache, now fixed by using cache invalidation instead

Follow-up patch to v3.38.13 — fixes the last of the recently-reported issues.

##### Fix

**#3051** — `memory_store` accepted a `tags` array and returned `success: true`, but the very next `memory_retrieve` (or `memory_list`) came back with `tags: []`.

Root cause was in `bridgeStoreEntry`: after the DB insert (which serialized tags correctly to the `tags` column), the write-through cache set stored only a partial entry — `{ id, key, namespace, content, embedding }` — with no `tags`. The next `bridgeGetEntry` hit that cache and returned `tags: cached.tags || []` = `[]`.

Fix: replace the partial write-through with cache invalidation. Next read re-fetches the authoritative row (which correctly parses the `tags` JSON column) and repopulates the cache with the full shape. Side benefit: same defect had also caused `access_count`, `createdAt`, and `updatedAt` to be stale from the cache — invalidation fixes those too.

Proven regression test in `__tests__/memory-store-tags-cache-3051.test.ts`: pre-fix returns `tags: []`, post-fix returns the real tags.

##### Install

- `npx ruflo@latest` (or `@alpha` / `@v3alpha` — all three tags aligned)

##### Merged PR

Closes #3051 — [#3079](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/pull/3079)

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