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## What's new

- **A formatting editor for Free Text.** In the Form Builder, a `Free Text` field's `Content` now
  takes headings, bold, italics, underline, dot points, numbered lists and links, in every form,
  landing pages included. See [Form builder](/administrator/applications/form-builder).
- **The reader sees the formatting.** Applicants, assessors and visitors to a landing page see the
  content as you formatted it, in the form, its preview and the landing page.
- **Nothing changes until you edit it.** Free Text written before today shows exactly as it did.
  It opens in the editor as paragraphs and is saved with formatting the first time you change it.
- **Safe by default.** Anything that is not formatting, such as a script pasted from another site,
  is removed when the form is saved and again when it is shown.