# Force validations on records when publishing

[date: 2025-01-13T11:02:00.645+01:00]

Another one for content best practices! We're rolling out an option to stop CMS users from publishing invalid records.

How can published records be invalid you ask? Imagine records where `title` fields were required, and everything was published correctly. No sweat. You now extend that model to add in a new `subtitle` field which is also required. At this point, all the records in that model will require you to update them by filling in the `subtitle` field before their next publish.

While we'll enable this flag to TRUE for all new projects, you can easily enable it in your existing project under Configuration \> Available Updates.