Data revalidation

Call revalidateTag with a single tag argument to invalidate cached data by tag.

officialNext.js docs (Pages Router and v13 to v14 era)confidence 40%current as of Oct 2024

The earlier API was revalidateTag(tag) with just the tag name. You called it in a Server Action or Route Handler after a mutation. Next.js 16 deprecated the single argument form in favor of passing a cacheLife profile. Existing single argument calls still run but warn.

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On Next.js 16 revalidateTag takes a cacheLife profile as its second argument. Use updateTag in a Server Action for read your writes.

Next.js 16 requires a cacheLife profile as the second argument to revalidateTag. The single argument form is deprecated.