I've been away from NR for a while, but I think I've found a bug in 3.1.3,unless I'm misunderstanding flow context. I'm setting a flow context variable and then changing the local variable that it's set to. When I subsequently query the flow variable, it has changed to the new value of the local variable, although the flow variable itself has not been updated. It's as though the flow variable is persistently locked to the local variable.
Flow is as follows. Run the top part first and then the second, to query the flow variable.
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