Blend Release Notes - 2023/04/21

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Release Notes

April 21, 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 (0)

Maintenance Announcements (5)

  • (New) Maintenance for Postgres 14 Upgrade for Pricing and AUS
  • MSK Config Update
  • Database Maintenance
  • Kubernetes Spot Instance Maintenance
  • Mongo Database Maintenance

Preview Environments (Test/Dev/Beta) (3)

Production Environments (Prod) (1)

 

Maintenance Announcements (5)

(New) Maintenance for Postgres 14 Upgrade for Pricing and AUS

Description

Blend will be upgrading the engine version of our production databases to Postgres 14 for Pricing and AUS.

What services or products are affected?

AUS and Pricing.

Will this impact the borrower and lender experience?

Yes. Lenders and borrowers will experience error messages if Pricing or AUS is attempted during the maintenance window.

Affected Period:

  • Prod: AUS - May 15 11:59PM - 2am PST
  • Prod: Pricing - May 16 11:59PM - 2am PST

 

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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