Blend Release Notes - 2024/05/03

(Note: you can download the Release Notes PDF in the Release Notes PDFs section in Help Center)

For this release, we anticipate the following introductions in your environments. Major features are documented in the Blend Knowledge Base accessible at help.blend.com.

If that resource does not answer your question, please reach out to Blend Support.

Announcements (1)

(New) Support for Fannie Mae’s Single Source Validation (SSV) and Freddie Mac’s Asset and Income Modeler (AIM) in Blend

Several customers have reached out regarding Fannie Mae’s VOIE via asset report in DU validation service and Freddie Mac’s Asset and Income Modeler programs. These programs are supported in Blend currently, as long as customers have enabled long asset history in their environments. 

Long asset history allows our data providers to pull 12 months of borrower asset data for accounts linked by borrowers during the assets workflow. When the AUS services are run, the GSEs receive the report ID for the borrower’s asset data. The borrower’s asset data is accessed and analyzed when DU and/or LPA is run, and results of the assessments will appear in the DU and LPA results files. No additional work is required from borrowers or loan team members in order to run these programs in Blend, and there will be no changes to the borrower or loan team workflow.

Blend customers who have previously requested that we enable long asset history to support other Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs do not need to do anything else in order to start using these new DU and LPA programs. Customers who have not yet enabled long asset history should reach out to Blend Support or their Blend representatives in order to enable it. 

Maintenance Announcements (4)

(New) RON production database major version upgrade

Description:
We will be performing a major version upgrade.

How will this impact the lender and borrower app? 

There will be no impact to the lender or borrower application. 

What are the affected periods for beta? 

N/A

What are the affected periods for prod environments? 

Monday, June 3rd 12:00AM - 2:00AM PT

(New) Node-local-dns Upgrade

Description: 

We are upgrading the version of node-local-dns. The maintenance should only take about 5 minutes and should not cause any disruptions.

How will this impact the lender and borrower app? 

There will be no impact to the lender or borrower app. 

What are the affected periods for beta? 

Tuesday, June 4th 12am-2am PST

What are the affected periods for prod environments? 

Tuesday, June 11th 12am-2am PST 

Kubernetes minor version upgrade

Description

We will be upgrading kubernetes from 1.24 to 1.25. The maintenance is expected to take the full two hours of the listed affected periods below. 

Will there be downtime associated with this maintenance?

No

What are the affected periods for beta? 

May 22nd 12am - 2am PST

What are affected periods for prod environments?

May 29th 12am - 2am PST

RDS Minor Version Upgrade

Description 

We will be performing a minor version upgrade for a multi-service db in beta and production. Expected downtime is 1-5 minutes. 

Will there be downtime associated with this maintenance?

Yes

What are the affected periods for beta? 

May 8th, 2024 12am - 2am PST

What are affected periods for prod environments?

May 15th, 2024 12am - 2am PST

Preview Environments (Test/Dev/Beta)

• Ability to Trigger Login-Based Income through Follow-Ups in the Lender Application
• HMDA Report Now Generated on Lender-Entered Applications and Exports
• Update ARM qualifying rate calculations for government loans
• (Update) Ability to create tenant-level custom pipeline views for all users
• Improved Search Experience for Blend Income’s Login-Based Provider Method

Production Environments (Prod)

• (New) Add Last 4 Digits of Borrower’s SSN to Blend Income Reports
• (New) Fields related to Blend Close added to Reporting Dashboard Closings Report

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