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## Improved

- **Wait a number of minutes.** Under `Do`, each action's `Unit` now offers `minutes` as well as
  `hours` and `days`, so an action can wait 15 or 30 minutes before it runs. See
  [Automations](/administrator/communications/automations).

## Fixed

- **A delay keeps its exact minutes.** A delay that was not a whole number of hours, such as 15 or
  90 minutes, used to reopen rounded to hours (15 minutes showed as 0 hours) and be saved that way.
  It now reopens in minutes and is saved unchanged.
- **Emails only to current members.** An automation that emails the applicant or the assigned
  assessors no longer sends to anyone whose membership of your organisation has been removed or
  disabled since. If nobody is left to email, the action shows `Skipped` in the log.
- **Status changes run straight away.** An automation whose action changes an application's status
  with no wait now makes the change on its first attempt, rather than after a retry a minute later.