diff --git a/doc/changelog.md b/doc/changelog.md
index 83fa3ce4..137a8416 100644
--- a/doc/changelog.md
+++ b/doc/changelog.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ To be released at a future time.
 
 Description
 
+-  Add missing header file to scalarfield.h
 -  Fix a segfault in the dataset destructor
 -  Update supported Python versions to 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12
 -  Bump versions for upload/download-artifact Github Actions
@@ -16,6 +17,10 @@ Description
 -  Reenable move semantics and fix compiler warnings.
 
 Detailed Notes
+-  When including scalarfield.h into an application, 
+   MetadataBuffer was never defined. Add an explicit include
+   to the header file to ensure that applications can build.
+   ([PR530](https://github.com/CrayLabs/SmartRedis/pull/530))
 -  For compilers that automatically call the dataset
    destructor when the object goes out of scope, a segfault
    was being triggered if the user was also explictly calling
diff --git a/include/scalarfield.h b/include/scalarfield.h
index bc816a60..023b3c21 100644
--- a/include/scalarfield.h
+++ b/include/scalarfield.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #ifndef SMARTREDIS_SCALARFIELD_H
 #define SMARTREDIS_SCALARFIELD_H
 
+#include "metadatabuffer.h"
 #include "metadatafield.h"
 #include <iostream>