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• changes to drafts - the service.user who submits a draft application will now get notifications, not the user who created it. 

• update fees - update service so new fees are displayed and customer is charged the correct amount.

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• correspondence - improvements to correspondence, including who receives it, downloading multiple documents at once and a document previewer

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• respond to an examination improvement - add an ‘Additional docs’ option to allow tracked changes to be uploaded more informationeasily.

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