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## What's new

- **Reporting bands.** A small grant no longer needs a custom reporting schedule. Set bands on a
  grant round or a program, each an amount range with the reports it owes: the milestone template,
  when each is due and its share of the grant. A round with no bands of its own uses its program's.
  See [Reporting bands](/administrator/milestones/reporting-bands).

- **Generate a schedule from the band.** On an application with an approved Funding Decision,
  select `Generate schedule` to get one draft milestone per report in the band the granted amount
  falls in. Change or remove any of them, then select `Send schedule` to publish them, or `Discard`
  to start again. If a variation later moves the grant into another band, the application says so,
  and the milestones already sent stay as they are. See
  [An application](/administrator/applications/an-application#generate-a-milestone-schedule-from-a-reporting-band).

- **Use a band on a contract.** At a contract's `Milestones` step, `Use reporting band` creates the
  same milestones as contract milestones, which the grantee sees once the contract is executed.

- **Linked conditions hold a payment.** The `Linked Conditions` field on a milestone's page links
  it to conditions of its application. Until every linked condition is approved, the milestone
  isn't offered in a payment batch, and its page says why. See
  [Milestones and batches](/administrator/milestones/milestones-and-batches#linked-conditions).