Release Update
If you have encountered an error message when attempting to install this release that contains the following:
“CondaHTTPError: HTTP 404 NOT FOUND for url: https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch/wheel-0.30.0-py_1.tar.bz2”
then this update is for you! This error is because the folks at conda-forge replaced the wheel package with a newer build, and took down the version that the QIIME 2 2017.12 environment file was referencing. We have updated this file to point to the latest build of wheel, so if you were experiencing this error earlier, you should be able to re-attempt to install with better success 
. Good luck and let us know if you run into any issues!