Blend Release Notes - 2023/04/07

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Release Notes

April 7, 2023 (note: you can download the Release Notes PDF 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 https://help.blend.com/

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

Announcements (3)

  • (NEW) Blend Public API v6.0.0 Release
  • HELOC Brochure Update
  • Backend Upgrades to Empower Configuration

Maintenance Announcements (4)

  • (NEW) MSK Config Update
  • Database Maintenance
  • Kubernetes Spot Instance Maintenance
  • Mongo Database Maintenance

Preview Environments (Test/Dev/Beta) (1)

Production Environments (Prod) (1)

 

Announcements 

(New) Blend Public API v6.0.0 Release

Version 6.0.0 of the Blend Public API will be released to General Availability (GA) on April 14, 2023. As part of our API release cadence, v6.0.0 allows for the introduction of breaking changes, but does not introduce any changes to previous versions of the API.

Starting with v6.0.0, Blend will be changing the release cadence for our Public API. From now on, API versions will be released every six months, in April and October. Additionally, all API releases will be major releases, allowing for the introduction of breaking changes.

Previous major versions of the Blend Public API remain available and supported after the release of v6.0.0. The primary impact of the GA release of v6.0.0 is that we will not introduce new breaking changes to v6.0.0 after April 15.

Some highlights of v6.0.0 of the Blend Public API include:

  • Added support for updating a party's username, when the party is associated with an SSO user
  • Added endpoints to get and patch closing schedule details
  • Added new third-party user types
  • Restructured the response schema of the tax transcripts request API
  • Renamed fields in the lender PAB activities endpoint to reflect that this field includes all AUS run recommendations, not just DU
  • Added an endpoint to get income data through Blend Income for a specific party ID

The full changelog for v6.0.0 of the Blend Public API can be found at: https://developers.blend.com/blend/v6.0.0/changelog/v600

 

HELOC Brochure Update

The CFPB issued an update to the “What you should know about home equity lines of credit” brochure (HELOC Brochure) in December 2022. If the HELOC Brochure has not been updated in your HELOC product, please request this update. A Blend representative can assist you.

Backend Upgrades to Empower Configuration

Over the next few weeks, Blend will be migrating our existing Empower API configuration to a new internal configuration. This will only affect customers using Empower. The new configuration will allow our product and engineering teams to more easily configure and edit requests sent from Blend to Empower via our integration, which will help Blend respond more quickly to Empower customer requests in the future.

There will be no UI impacts, nor any changes or disruptions to existing data exports during or after the migration. Lender users should continue testing and monitoring their Empower integration and work with their account teams to escalate and resolve any issues, if any are observed.

 

Maintenance Announcements (4)

(New) MSK Config Update

Description:

Blend will be conducting maintenance on our MSK clusters to make several configuration updates for the events platform. Platform events might get delayed for up to 30 minutes.

Borrowers may experience some slowness when using the application during this window. Lenders may experience some delays in export. There will be no downtime.

Affected Period:

Beta: April 19 11:59pm - 2am (Wednesday night - Thursday morning)

Prod: April 26 11:59pm - 2am (Wednesday night - Thursday morning)

 

Database Maintenance

Description:

Blend will be conducting maintenance on our shared database cluster to upgrade the engine version to the latest.

What products or services will be affected during the maintenance window (platforms, applications, integrations, n/a, etc.):

All of Blend Platform will be impacted

Will this impact the borrower experience?

Yes

Will this impact the lender experience?

Yes

Affected Period:

  • Beta: May 3rd, 2023 12am-2am
  • Prod: May 10th, 2023 12am-2am

 

Kubernetes Spot Instance Maintenance

Description:

Blend will be conducting maintenance on our Kubernetes clusters to replace a number of nodes with Spot instances.

There is no expected disruption to products or services. This will not impact the borrower or lender experience.

Affected Period:

  • Prod: April 19th, 2023, April 26th, 2023, 11:59pm - 2am

 

Mongo Database Maintenance

Description:

Blend will be conducting maintenance on our mongo database cluster to improve scalability and reliability.

What products or services will be affected during the maintenance window (platforms, applications, integrations, n/a, etc.):

All of Blend Platform will be impacted.

Will this impact the borrower experience?

Yes

Will this impact the lender experience?

Yes

Affected Period:

  • Beta: April 13th, 12am - 2am
  • Beta: April 14th, 12am - 2am
  • Beta: April 18th, 12am - 2am (backup)
  • Prod: April 25th, 12am - 2am
  • Prod: April 26th, 12am - 2am
  • Prod: April 27th, 12am - 2am
  • Prod: April 28th, 12am - 2am (backup)

 

 

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