# Possible to provide warning when metadata doesn't have a header?

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/possible-to-provide-warning-when-metadata-doesnt-have-a-header/1450
**Category:** Ideas and Suggestions
**Tags:** filtering, metadata
**Created:** [October 9, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/possible-to-provide-warning-when-metadata-doesnt-have-a-header/1450 "2017-10-09T16:43:26Z")
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### Author: ![jairideout](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/jairideout/32/9_2.png) [@jairideout](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/jairideout)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/possible-to-provide-warning-when-metadata-doesnt-have-a-header/1450/17 "2018-02-16T16:43:54Z")

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In the QIIME 2 `2018.2` release, Metadata now has a very minimal required header to avoid the issues reported in this topic.

There are a number of other changes to QIIME 2 Metadata in the `2018.2` release. See [this forum announcement](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/summary-of-changes-to-metadata-in-qiime-2-2018-2-release/2884) for details on what changed, as well as the updated [Metadata tutorial](https://docs.qiime2.org/2018.2/tutorials/metadata/). 🌞

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