diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5ee24b6f85d89b215fbe013f853fb9de4f6e5f39..37fe10b50db480a93ccd76ac420cc40f9d8dcba9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 ### Fixed
   - Dup3 is supported if O_CLOEXEC is not used (i.e. hexdump) ([!228](https://storage.bsc.es/gitlab/hpc/gekkofs/-/merge_requests/228))
   - gkfs_do_write uses int instead of ssize_t causing overflow ([!229](https://storage.bsc.es/gitlab/hpc/gekkofs/-/merge_requests/229))
-
+  - proxy remove metadata has inverted return values ([!237](https://storage.bsc.es/gitlab/hpc/gekkofs/-/merge_requests/237))
 
 ## [0.9.4] - 2025-03
 ### New
diff --git a/src/proxy/rpc/forward_metadata.cpp b/src/proxy/rpc/forward_metadata.cpp
index 046180bb08ea70ccf6ce412bea88782629eb39b6..097f3e4ee340aa08e08c018ac45f8aaad9390fb8 100644
--- a/src/proxy/rpc/forward_metadata.cpp
+++ b/src/proxy/rpc/forward_metadata.cpp
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ forward_stat(const std::string& path) {
 
 int
 forward_remove(const std::string& path, bool rm_dir) {
-    auto [err, mode, size] = remove_metadata(path, rm_dir);
+    auto [err, size, mode] = remove_metadata(path, rm_dir);
     if(err != 0) {
         return err;
     }