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## What's new

- **`Email address` is a `Format` for a `Short text` field.** Choose it under the field's
  properties in the [Form builder](/administrator/applications/form-builder).
- **`Notify on decision`.** On an application form, a field formatted `Email address` can be
  ticked `Notify on decision`. The Letter of Decline then also goes to the address entered in that
  field, whether or not the applicant is ticked under `Notify` when the decision is sent.