Blend Release Notes - 2022/11/18

For this release, we anticipate the following introductions in your environments. Each entry below is linked to their specific update containing more information. Major features are documented in the Blend Knowledge Base accessible at Blend Help Center. 

Add Custom Questions to Borrower and Lender Workflows

We have a limited number of spots available as we roll out an exciting new feature, custom questions. This is currently available for testing, and we’re looking for a few customers to pilot with us. If your LOS is Empower or Encompass Next Gen and you’re interested in adding custom questions to your application (either borrower and/or lender) please reach out to your Account Partner for more information.

Feature Releases through the end of 2022

Like every year, Blend will be implementing code freezes over Thanksgiving and the winter holidays. No regular releases or changes to production will occur during the following time periods (endpoints inclusive):

• Thanksgiving: Wednesday 11/23/2022 - Sunday 11/27/2022
• Winter: Tuesday 12/20/2022 - Monday 1/2/2023

What this means for customers:

• No Required features will be introduced to customer production environments during the longer Winter code freeze.

• Release Notes during the week of Thanksgiving will be posted on Wednesday, November 23, instead of Friday, due to the holiday.

• If there are existing and previously-communicated features that you would like to enable in your beta or production environments during either code freeze, you may do so at your discretion. Contact Blend Support or your Blend representative for assistance.

• Maintenance windows affecting customer production environments will not be conducted during either code freeze.

If you have any questions, please contact Blend Support or your Blend representative.

New Integration with The Work Number® by Equifax for Verification of Income and Employment

In late 2021/early 2022, Blend built and announced a new integration with The Work Number® by Equifax for Verification of Income and Employment. This newly enhanced integration gives you access to additional Equifax mortgage income and employment verification services, in addition to other benefits. In order to access these additional services, you must migrate your current integration to the new one. Equifax will no longer offer support for the old integration effective December 1, 2022. Blend sent announcements about this to impacted customers in early 2022 via email, and most customers have already migrated to the new integration. If you have not migrated yet or have any questions, please reach out to your Blend Account Team and/or Blend Support (support@blend.com).

Webhooks database migration

Blend will be migrating our webhook events database to improve scalability and reliability. During this maintenance, all webhook events will be queued and retried after the maintenance has completed.

Affected Period:

• Prod: 2hrs maximum, December 2nd, 12AM-2AM PT
• Back up: December 9th 12AM-2AM PT

Connectivity Database Maintenance

Blend will be performing maintenance to the connectivity service’s production database. Borrowers will not be able to connect assets and credit functionalities will not work.
Any public api endpoints for credit and assets connectivity will experience timeouts. The events received during this period will be queued and retried after maintenance is complete.

Expected downtime: Expecting less than 5mins. Maximum: 2 hours.

Affected Period:

• Prod: December 1st, 12AM-2AM PST,
• Back up: December 2nd 12AM-2AM PST

Configurations database migration

Blend will be migrating our configurations database to improve scalability and reliability. We don't expect any service downtime during this period, and if there is downtime, our internal services have local configuration caches they can fall back on, so customers should not experience any disruptions to functionality.

Affected Period:

• Prod: 2hrs maximum, December 9th, 12AM-2AM PT,
• Back up: December 16th 12AM-2AM PT

• (New) Migrate loan search bar to ElasticSearch
• Optimal Blue Product Mapping for MortgageBot Integration
• Update to the Blend Platform Consumer Privacy Policy and Terms of Use 2022
• OneSpan migration: Updated pre-approval letter workflow for realtors
• Ability to add the company address to the signature block for Pre-Approval Letters (PALs)
• Ability to add Loan Originator’s Title to the signature block for pre-approval letters (PALs)
• Updated MISMO handling of self-employment fields

No new updates to Production this week.

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