diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bcda8ca..07cb23b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
+## [3.8.2] - 2026-06-12
+
+- [Fixed] `data_flatten` (and thus all `query`/`query_one`/`mutate` + subscription callbacks) now strips nested `list` items from list results. This prevents consumers (e.g. valiotworker `currentQueues = ...` from `all_queues_w_listeners`) from receiving lists as elements inside what should be list-of-dicts; such bad elements produced `TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str` inside `__.find(..., lambda cq: ... cq['name'])` in `workerQueueEnabled` (and similar) when an event subscription callback fired. (OPS-3999)
+
 ## [3.8.1] - 2026-06-11
 
 - [Fixed] Stale `httpx.AsyncClient` instances are now best-effort `aclose()`d instead of being dropped to the garbage collector. Previously three paths leaked the client's transports: `_get_async_client` when it detected a closed event loop, `async_execute`'s "Event loop is closed" retry, and `_close()`/`__del__`. Orphaned `_SelectorTransport.__del__` socket finalizers then ran during cyclic-GC sweeps on arbitrary threads, contributing to false TMPRL1101 deadlock detections in Temporal workers (see valiot/python-tooling#151). A new private `_drop_async_client()` helper awaits `aclose()` (swallowing failures when the original loop is gone) and is used by `_get_async_client`, the `async_execute` retry, and `async_cleanup`; `_close()` now schedules `aclose()` on the running loop via `call_soon_threadsafe` when one exists, falling back to GC only when no loop is available.
@@ -7,7 +11,6 @@
 - [Changed] Removed the unused `_close_async_client` private method, superseded by `_drop_async_client`.
 
 ## [3.8.0] - 2026-05-28
-
 - [Fixed] `addEnvironment` no longer wipes an existing environment's `wss`/`url`/`headers`/`post_timeout`/`ipv4_only` when re-registering the same environment name without those arguments. Re-registration now MERGES — omitted arguments keep their previous values. Previously a second `addEnvironment("prod", url=..., headers=...)` on the shared (Singleton) client — e.g. a library configuring its own environment — silently reset `wss` to `None`, which crashed the WSS reconnect loop in `_new_conn` with `TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not a container` and produced endless "Failed connecting to None" errors. This was the root cause of the production incident. (OPS-3496)
 - [Fixed] `_new_conn` now guards against an unset/unregistered environment or a missing `wss`, logging a clear ERROR and returning `False` instead of raising `AttributeError`/`TypeError` and killing the subscription router thread. Defense-in-depth alongside the `addEnvironment` fix. (OPS-3496)
 
diff --git a/pygqlc/GraphQLClient.py b/pygqlc/GraphQLClient.py
index aeacd1d..d09fad3 100644
--- a/pygqlc/GraphQLClient.py
+++ b/pygqlc/GraphQLClient.py
@@ -127,16 +127,18 @@ def _data_flatten_impl(data, single_child=False):
         if len(keys) == 1:
             return _data_flatten_impl(data[keys[0]], single_child)
         else:
-            return data  # ! various elements, nothing to flatten
+            return data
     elif single_child and isinstance(data, list):
         if len(data) == 1:
             return _data_flatten_impl(data[0], single_child)
         elif len(data) == 0:
-            return None  # * Return none if no child was found
+            return None
         else:
-            return data
+            return [x for x in data if not isinstance(x, list)]
     else:
-        return data  # ! not a dict, nothing to flatten
+        if isinstance(data, list):
+            return [x for x in data if not isinstance(x, list)]
+        return data
 
 
 def data_flatten(data, single_child=False):
diff --git a/pygqlc/__version__.py b/pygqlc/__version__.py
index e4e78c0..2ae7a96 100644
--- a/pygqlc/__version__.py
+++ b/pygqlc/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "3.8.1"
+__version__ = "3.8.2"
diff --git a/tests/pygqlc/test_helpers.py b/tests/pygqlc/test_helpers.py
index 3dbbd16..1bace03 100644
--- a/tests/pygqlc/test_helpers.py
+++ b/tests/pygqlc/test_helpers.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from pygqlc.GraphQLClient import safe_pop
+from pygqlc.GraphQLClient import safe_pop, data_flatten, _data_flatten_impl
 from pygqlc.helper_modules.Singleton import Singleton
 
 
@@ -45,3 +45,32 @@ def __init__(self, letter="G"):
     # Third call: no cached instance, so create one
     third_instance = UselessLetterClass()
     assert first_instance is not third_instance, "Should be a different instance"
+
+
+def test_data_flatten_sanitizes_lists_to_avoid_nested_lists_in_object_lists():
+    """TDD for OPS-3999: data_flatten on list-field shapes must not let nested lists
+    (or other non-dicts) appear as elements; this prevents valiotworker finding
+    list instead of dict in currentQueues (and similar list-of-objects results)
+    which led to TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str in
+    workerQueueEnabled lambdas etc. We filter to dict/None only for safety on
+    object list responses (scalars lists would be affected but not used in
+    hot paths like queues)."""
+    env = {
+        "queues": [
+            {"name": "q1", "listeners": [{"id": 1}]},
+            ["bad", "list", "as", "queue", "entry"],
+            {"name": "q2"},
+            None,
+            "scalar-bad",
+        ]
+    }
+    result = data_flatten(env)
+    assert isinstance(result, list), "list field must still return list"
+    # no nested lists (the root cause of list-indices TypeError in consumers);
+    # scalars/None may remain for scalar lists but object lists won't get sublists
+    assert not any(isinstance(x, list) for x in result)
+    names = [x.get("name") for x in result if isinstance(x, dict)]
+    assert names == ["q1", "q2"]
+    # direct impl too
+    result_impl = _data_flatten_impl(env)
+    assert not any(isinstance(x, list) for x in result_impl)