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## What's new

- **Record a recommendation from the decision.** A decision's `Notification Details` step shows
  each application's `Recommendation` (`Approve`, `Review` or `Decline`, with who recorded it and
  when), and `Record recommendation` records or changes it with an optional internal rationale.
  It's the same recommendation the decision register shows. See
  [Funding decisions](/administrator/decisions/funding-decisions#notification-details).

## Fixed

- **A deferral reads as a deferral.** A `Defer` decision's last step is now `Record Deferral`
  rather than `Send`, and once recorded the step, the decision's page and its decision view say
  `Deferred` and that no letter or email was sent, with who recorded it and when. The decision view
  no longer offers letters, `Resend Letters` or `Revoke Decisions` for it.
- **Clearer messages when the outcome and the action don't match.** Sending a `Defer` decision, or
  deferring an `Approve` or `Decline` decision, now says exactly that and what to do, instead of
  asking you to choose an outcome.