Tag is reset on publishing a workflow

[harshit-mehtaa]

Bug Description

The tag set on a workflow is removed when publishing a workflow.

To Reproduce

1. Set Tag on a workflow
2. Publish the workflow
3. Go to the homepage or any other workflow
4. Go back to the original workflow
5. The tag is missing, which was set in step 1

Expected behavior

Once set, the tag should persist until removed manually

Debug Info

Debug info

core

• n8nVersion: 2.9.0
• platform: docker (self-hosted)
• nodeJsVersion: 24.13.1
• nodeEnv: production
• database: postgres
• executionMode: scaling (single-main)
• concurrency: -1

storage

• success: all
• error: all
• progress: false
• manual: true
• binaryMode: database

pruning

• enabled: true
• maxAge: 168 hours
• maxCount: 5000 executions

client

• userAgent: mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 10.0; win64; x64) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/145.0.0.0 safari/537.36
• isTouchDevice: false

Generated at: 2026-02-22T10:23:19.911Z

Operating System

docker (self-hosted)

n8n Version

2.9.0

Node.js Version

24.13.1

Database

PostgreSQL

Execution mode

queue

Hosting

self hosted

[n8n-assistant]

Hey @harshit-mehtaa,

Thank you for reaching out! We’ve received your issue and are looking into it. To help us track this internally, we’ve created a Linear ticket with the reference: "GHC-6963".

We’ll keep you updated as we make progress, but if you have any additional details or context to share, feel free to add them here - it’s always helpful!

Thanks for your patience and for bringing this to our attention.

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For INTERNAL use only: GHC-6963

[MookieLian]

@harshit-mehtaa Thank you for bringing this up! It looks like this issue is a duplicate of #25906, where we're already tracking progress and updates. To keep things organised, we'll close this issue and continue the discussion over there.

If you have any additional details or context that might help, please feel free to add them to the original issue. Your input is always appreciated!

Thanks again for your contribution, and let us know if there's anything else we can assist with.

#closed:duplicate