Blend Release Notes - 2022/08/19

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. 

Announcements

Blend Public API v5.2.0 is now GA

Version 5.2.0 of the Blend Public API was released to General Availability on August 15, 2022.

As part of our standard API release cadence, v5.2.0 does not introduce any breaking changes, and does not introduce any changes to previous versions of the API. As of August 15, v5.3.0 is the current Experimental version of the Blend Public API.

View the recent release note for the highlights of v5.2.0 of the Blend Public API. 

The full changelog and documentation for v5.2.0 is available on the Blend Developers site: https://developers.blend.com/blend/changelog/v520

Changes to SMS copy 

Some customers reported that some SMS messages sent via the Blend platform were being split into multiple messages (a.k.a. segments). While all SMS messages are sent as one message, some carriers would split the message into segments of 153 characters, which could cause the URL to split. To address this issue, the copy of the SMS messages has been revised so that any URL will more likely be pushed into a second segment. 

You can view the current message copy for all SMS messages in our product guide. Only the messages that included a URL will have been changed. 

Maintenance Announcements

Updating production mongodb from 4.2 to 4.4

We will be upgrading the software on some of our production maintenance machines.

The update is to both the latest software version as well as to allow better scaling ability.

Impact:

There is no expected downtime during these changes though there might be some slowness experienced by people using the app both lender and borrower.

Affected Period:

Prod: 2 hours maximum, September 8th, 12AM-2AM PT

Prod: 2 hours maximum, September 15th, 12AM-2AM PT

Prod: 2 hours maximum, September 22nd, 12AM-2AM PT

Prod: 2 hours maximum, September 29th, 12AM-2AM PT

Identity Database Upgrade

The Blend Identity service will upgrade its primary database from PostgreSQL 10.20 to 12.10.

Impact:

During this maintenance, users who are not already logged in (i.e. users who do not have an active session) will not be able to log in to the Blend Signing Room, the Settlement Agent Workspace, or the Notary Workspace. Additionally, users of these services will not be able to reset their passwords or activate new user accounts. All standard borrower and lender users will still be able to log in to and operate normally in the Blend lending platform during this maintenance.

Expected downtime: 2 hours

Services: Identity

Affected Period: 

Beta: 2 hours maximum, September 7, 12AM-2AM PDT

Prod: 2 hours maximum, September 9, 12AM-2AM PDT

Preview Environments (Test/Dev/Beta)

• (New) Moving loan scenarios functionality from front-end to back-end, Beta 08/23, Prod 09/20
• (New) Updating linked REO liability amounts, Beta 08/23, Prod 09/20
• (New) LPA v5.1.00 upgrade, Beta 08/23, Prod 09/20

Production Environment (Prod) 

• Update to ARM qualifying rate calculations, Prod 8/23
• Cash to close improvements, Prod 8/23 

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