diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
index 17a43f9d..b3339e42 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
@@ -3840,6 +3840,7 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers, IWithUnboundedS
         StopDependencyAdapter(driverInstanceId);
         Context.Stop(entry.Actor);
         _children.Remove(driverInstanceId);
+        EvictRetainedValues(driverInstanceId);
         // The instance left the plan (StopChild is only reached via plan.ToStop), so its cached
         // Health/Resilience snapshots must not replay to new telemetry subscribers. Release the shared
         // resilience state FIRST: the resilience publisher re-emits the tracker's snapshots every tick, so
@@ -3858,6 +3859,25 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers, IWithUnboundedS
         _log.Info("DriverHost {Node}: stopped driver child {Id}", _localNode, driverInstanceId);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Tells the dependency mux to drop every retained value this driver instance produced, so a stopped
+    ///     driver's last Good is never replayed to a later replay-opting subscriber as if it were current. Sent
+    ///     wherever a driver OBJECT ends: a deploy removal, the stop half of a config-change respawn
+    ///     (<see cref="StopChild"/>) and an operator Restart (a new driver object). Deliberately NOT sent on a
+    ///     supervision restart (<see cref="HandleReprovisionRequested"/>): that re-uses the same driver, whose last value is
+    ///     still its current one. Sent before any respawn, on the same host→mux pair the new incarnation's
+    ///     values travel, so the eviction is ordered ahead of them.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    ///     Residual: a burst the old child enqueued on this host just before it stopped can still be forwarded
+    ///     after the eviction and re-retain a value. The window is one mailbox drain; a comms-loss fan or the
+    ///     next real publish overwrites it, and the mux's grace sweep bounds it once no replay subscriber holds
+    ///     the ref.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <param name="driverInstanceId">The driver instance that ended.</param>
+    private void EvictRetainedValues(string driverInstanceId) =>
+        _dependencyMux?.Tell(new DependencyMuxActor.SourceRemoved(driverInstanceId));
+
     private static string ActorNameFor(string driverInstanceId, long generation)
     {
         // Akka actor names cannot contain '/', ':', or whitespace. Mangle defensively. The monotonic
@@ -3905,6 +3925,9 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers, IWithUnboundedS
         StopDependencyAdapter(msg.DriverInstanceId);
         Context.Stop(entry.Actor);
         _children.Remove(msg.DriverInstanceId);
+        // An operator Restart builds a NEW driver object, so the old one's retained values are evicted like a
+        // removal's; the respawned driver republishes its own.
+        EvictRetainedValues(msg.DriverInstanceId);
         // The old incarnation's health must not read as the new one's until it publishes its own.
         _healthPublisher.Forget(msg.DriverInstanceId);
 
diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/VirtualTags/DependencyMuxActor.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/VirtualTags/DependencyMuxActor.cs
index 40e9bf19..3dd8441e 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/VirtualTags/DependencyMuxActor.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/VirtualTags/DependencyMuxActor.cs
@@ -52,11 +52,9 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.VirtualTags;
 ///         <b>Source removal.</b> The mux records which driver instance last published each retained ref;
 ///         <see cref="SourceRemoved"/> evicts every value that driver produced, so a removed driver's last
 ///         Good is never replayed as current. A comms-loss fan (a Bad batch) already overwrites the retained
-///         value with Bad. ⚠️ As of fix round 1 no production actor sends <see cref="SourceRemoved"/> yet —
-///         <c>DriverHostActor</c> (outside the scripting lane) must Tell it when it stops / removes a driver
-///         child. Until then a removed driver's last value can still be replayed to a replay-opting
-///         subscriber that re-registers for that ref while another replay-opting subscriber holds it, or
-///         within the grace window.
+///         value with Bad. <c>DriverHostActor</c> sends <see cref="SourceRemoved"/> wherever a driver object
+///         ends (a deploy removal, the stop half of a config-change respawn, an operator Restart), and never
+///         on a supervision restart, which re-uses the same driver.
 ///     </para>
 /// </summary>
 public sealed class DependencyMuxActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
diff --git a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverHostActorSourceRemovedTests.cs b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverHostActorSourceRemovedTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a7a49f7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverHostActorSourceRemovedTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+using Akka.Actor;
+using Akka.TestKit;
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Commons.Engines;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Commons.Types;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Drivers;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests.Harness;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.VirtualTags;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests.Drivers;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     The dependency mux retains a ref's last value for replay-opting subscribers and evicts a driver's values on
+///     <see cref="DependencyMuxActor.SourceRemoved"/>. Before this, nothing in production sent that message, so a
+///     driver removed by a deploy kept its last Good in the mux and replayed it to the next replay-opting
+///     subscriber as if it were current. <c>DriverHostActor.StopChild</c> now sends it. A supervision restart
+///     re-uses the same driver and must NOT send it. All through a REAL mux and real driver children.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class DriverHostActorSourceRemovedTests : RuntimeActorTestBase
+{
+    private static readonly NodeId TestNode = NodeId.Parse("driver-sourceremoved-test");
+    private static readonly RevisionHash RevA = RevisionHash.Parse(new string('a', 64));
+    private static readonly RevisionHash RevB = RevisionHash.Parse(new string('b', 64));
+    private const string Path1 = "Plant/Modbus/dev1/speed";
+    private const string Path2 = "Plant/Modbus2/dev2/flow";
+    private static readonly (string, string, string, string, string?)[] NoRefs = [];
+
+    private static readonly (string Driver, string DriverName, string Device, string Tag, string DataType, bool Writable)[] BothDrivers =
+    [
+        ("DI-1", "Modbus", "dev1", "speed", "Double", false),
+        ("DI-2", "Modbus2", "dev2", "flow", "Double", false),
+    ];
+
+    /// <summary>Spawns a host over a real mux with two enabled drivers, waits for both children to subscribe,
+    /// registers a replay-opting holder (so the mux retains both refs) and publishes one value per driver.</summary>
+    private (IActorRef Host, TestProbe Coordinator, RecordingSubscribableDriverFactory Factory) ArrangeTwoDriversWithRetainedValues(
+        Akka.TestKit.TestProbe holder)
+    {
+        var db = NewInMemoryDbFactory();
+        _db = db;
+        var revA = V3ArtifactSeeder.SeedV3Deployment(db, RevA, BothDrivers, NoRefs, enabled: true);
+        var factory = new RecordingSubscribableDriverFactory("Modbus");
+        var mux = Sys.ActorOf(DependencyMuxActor.Props());
+        var coordinator = CreateTestProbe();
+        var host = Sys.ActorOf(DriverHostActor.Props(
+            db, TestNode, coordinator.Ref,
+            driverFactory: factory,
+            localRoles: new HashSet<string> { "driver" },
+            dependencyMux: mux,
+            virtualTagEvaluator: NullVirtualTagEvaluator.Instance,
+            virtualTagHostOverride: CreateTestProbe().Ref));
+        V3ArtifactSeeder.Dispatch(host, coordinator, revA, RevA);
+        AwaitAssert(() => factory.Created.Count.ShouldBe(2), PresenceBudget);
+        foreach (var d in factory.Created) AwaitAssert(() => d.SubscribeCount.ShouldBeGreaterThanOrEqualTo(1), PresenceBudget);
+
+        mux.Tell(new DependencyMuxActor.RegisterInterest(new[] { Path1, Path2 }, holder.Ref, ReplayRetained: true));
+        Driver(factory, "DI-1").FireDataChange(Path1, 11.0);
+        Driver(factory, "DI-2").FireDataChange(Path2, 22.0);
+        var seen = new HashSet<string>();
+        while (seen.Count < 2)
+            foreach (var item in holder.ExpectMsg<VirtualTagActor.DependencyValueBatch>(PresenceBudget).Items)
+                seen.Add(item.TagId);
+
+        _mux = mux;
+        return (host, coordinator, factory);
+    }
+
+    private IActorRef _mux = ActorRefs.Nobody;
+    private Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.IDbContextFactory<ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration.OtOpcUaConfigDbContext> _db = null!;
+
+    private static RecordingSubscribableDriver Driver(RecordingSubscribableDriverFactory f, string id) =>
+        f.Created.Last(d => d.DriverInstanceId == id);
+
+    /// <summary>A fresh replay-opting subscriber for both refs; returns the refs it was replayed.</summary>
+    private string[] ReplayedRefs()
+    {
+        var probe = CreateTestProbe();
+        _mux.Tell(new DependencyMuxActor.RegisterInterest(new[] { Path1, Path2 }, probe.Ref, ReplayRetained: true));
+        return probe.ExpectMsg<VirtualTagActor.DependencyValueBatch>(PresenceBudget)
+            .Items.Select(i => i.TagId).OrderBy(x => x, StringComparer.Ordinal).ToArray();
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_driver_removed_by_a_deploy_is_no_longer_replayed_while_a_still_present_driver_is()
+    {
+        var holder = CreateTestProbe();
+        var (host, coordinator, _) = ArrangeTwoDriversWithRetainedValues(holder);
+
+        // Positive control before the removal: both values replay.
+        ReplayedRefs().ShouldBe(new[] { Path2, Path1 }.OrderBy(x => x, StringComparer.Ordinal).ToArray());
+
+        // Deploy B drops DI-1 (StopChild).
+        var revB = V3ArtifactSeeder.SeedV3Deployment(
+            _db, RevB, [("DI-2", "Modbus2", "dev2", "flow", "Double", false)], NoRefs, enabled: true);
+        V3ArtifactSeeder.Dispatch(host, coordinator, revB, RevB);
+
+        AwaitAssert(
+            () => ReplayedRefs().ShouldBe(new[] { Path2 }, "DI-1 was removed: its last Good must not replay; DI-2's must"),
+            PresenceBudget);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_supervision_restart_does_not_evict_the_drivers_retained_value()
+    {
+        var holder = CreateTestProbe();
+        var (_, _, factory) = ArrangeTwoDriversWithRetainedValues(holder);
+        var di1 = Driver(factory, "DI-1");
+
+        // Crash DI-1's child: Akka restarts it around the SAME driver object, and the host reprovisions it.
+        di1.FireMalformedDataChange(Path1);
+        AwaitAssert(() => di1.InitializeCount.ShouldBe(2), PresenceBudget);
+        factory.Created.Count.ShouldBe(2, "a supervision restart re-uses the driver; no new one is created");
+
+        ReplayedRefs().ShouldBe(
+            new[] { Path2, Path1 }.OrderBy(x => x, StringComparer.Ordinal).ToArray(),
+            "a restart is the same driver instance: its last value stays replayable");
+    }
+}