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 2820df66..69fb5bb4 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/VirtualTags/DependencyMuxActor.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/VirtualTags/DependencyMuxActor.cs
@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.VirtualTags;
 ///     forwards a <see cref="VirtualTagActor.DependencyValueChanged"/> to each interested
 ///     subscriber.
 ///
-///     DriverHostActor forwards every <c>AttributeValuePublished</c> it receives from its
-///     DriverInstanceActor children to this mux (one mux per driver-role node). The mux is
-///     deliberately not a DPS subscriber — virtual-tag evaluation is local to each node and
+///     DriverHostActor forwards driver-child value publishes to this mux (one mux per driver-role
+///     node). The PRIMARY ingress is the batched
+///     <see cref="DriverInstanceActor.AttributeValueBatchPublished"/> — one envelope per driver
+///     production burst, which the mux filters per item — while the per-value
+///     <see cref="DriverInstanceActor.AttributeValuePublished"/> receive stays for the comms-loss fan
+///     (<c>DriverHostActor.FanCommsLossToDependencyMux</c> fabricates it) and per-tag drivers. Both
+///     produce the same <see cref="VirtualTagActor.DependencyValueChanged"/> per interested subscriber.
+///     The mux is deliberately not a DPS subscriber — virtual-tag evaluation is local to each node and
 ///     would over-emit if it spanned the cluster.
 /// </summary>
 public sealed class DependencyMuxActor : ReceiveActor
@@ -43,6 +48,7 @@ public sealed class DependencyMuxActor : ReceiveActor
         Receive<RegisterInterest>(OnRegister);
         Receive<UnregisterInterest>(msg => RemoveSubscriber(msg.Subscriber));
         Receive<DriverInstanceActor.AttributeValuePublished>(OnAttributeValuePublished);
+        Receive<DriverInstanceActor.AttributeValueBatchPublished>(OnAttributeValueBatchPublished);
         Receive<Terminated>(msg => RemoveSubscriber(msg.ActorRef));
     }
 
@@ -107,4 +113,20 @@ public sealed class DependencyMuxActor : ReceiveActor
         }
     }
 
+    /// <summary>Filters one batched driver production burst per item — the batched analogue of
+    /// <see cref="OnAttributeValuePublished"/>. Items nobody registered for are dropped (the common case:
+    /// only a fraction of an address space feeds virtual-tag expressions), so a burst of N values costs one
+    /// message plus one DependencyValueChanged per genuinely interested (item, subscriber) pair.</summary>
+    private void OnAttributeValueBatchPublished(DriverInstanceActor.AttributeValueBatchPublished msg)
+    {
+        // Indexed for-loop, not foreach: this is the hot value ingress and an IReadOnlyList<T> enumerator
+        // would allocate once per burst.
+        for (var i = 0; i < msg.Items.Count; i++)
+        {
+            var item = msg.Items[i];
+            if (!_byRef.TryGetValue(item.FullReference, out var subscribers) || subscribers.Count == 0) continue;
+            var dep = new VirtualTagActor.DependencyValueChanged(item.FullReference, item.Value, item.TimestampUtc, item.StatusCode);
+            foreach (var sub in subscribers) sub.Tell(dep);
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/VirtualTags/DependencyMuxActorTests.cs b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/VirtualTags/DependencyMuxActorTests.cs
index c5960c68..fccaebc4 100644
--- a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/VirtualTags/DependencyMuxActorTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/VirtualTags/DependencyMuxActorTests.cs
@@ -149,6 +149,36 @@ public sealed class DependencyMuxActorTests : RuntimeActorTestBase
         subscriber.ExpectMsg<VirtualTagActor.DependencyValueChanged>().TagId.ShouldBe("ref-1");
     }
 
+    /// <summary>A batched driver burst (the primary ingress from DriverHostActor since the value-pipeline
+    /// batching work) is filtered per item: a subscriber hears exactly one DependencyValueChanged for the
+    /// ref it registered, carrying that item's own value/timestamp/quality, and nothing for the rest of the
+    /// burst.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void AttributeValueBatchPublished_is_filtered_per_item_to_interested_subscribers()
+    {
+        var mux = Sys.ActorOf(DependencyMuxActor.Props());
+        var sub = CreateTestProbe();
+        mux.Tell(new DependencyMuxActor.RegisterInterest(new[] { "tag-x" }, sub.Ref));
+
+        var tsX = new DateTime(2026, 8, 15, 9, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+        var tsY = new DateTime(2026, 8, 15, 9, 0, 1, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+        mux.Tell(new DriverInstanceActor.AttributeValueBatchPublished("driver-1", new[]
+        {
+            new DriverInstanceActor.AttributeValueItem("tag-y", 99, OpcUaStatus.Good, tsY),
+            new DriverInstanceActor.AttributeValueItem("tag-x", 10, OpcUaStatus.BadNoCommunication, tsX),
+        }));
+
+        var dep = sub.ExpectMsg<VirtualTagActor.DependencyValueChanged>(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3));
+        dep.TagId.ShouldBe("tag-x");
+        dep.Value.ShouldBe(10);
+        dep.TimestampUtc.ShouldBe(tsX);
+        // #519: the item's own status sub-code rides through, not a Good/Bad bucket.
+        dep.StatusCode.ShouldBe(OpcUaStatus.BadNoCommunication);
+
+        // Nothing for tag-y — no subscriber registered for it.
+        sub.ExpectNoMsg(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(200));
+    }
+
     /// <summary>#478 — the mux forwards the published source quality onto DependencyValueChanged so the
     /// scripted-alarm host can derive a condition's worst-of-input quality.</summary>
     [Fact]