Blend Release Notes - 2023/03/31

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Release Notes

March 31, 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 (2)

  • HELOC Brochure Update
  • Backend Upgrades to Empower Configuration

Maintenance Announcements (4)

  • (New) Database Maintenance
  • (New) Kubernetes Spot Instance Maintenance
  • Auto Service Database upgrade
  • Database Maintenance

Preview Environments (Test/Dev/Beta) (2)

Production Environments (Prod) (3)

 

Announcements 

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) 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

 

(New) 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

 

Auto Service Database upgrade

Description:

Blend would be performing the DB version upgrade on our Auto service.

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

During the maintenance window the consumer baking products like Auto, Special Vehicle, Credit Card, HELOC, Personal Loan will be down. Our public endpoints GET:consumer-lending/applications/{id} - exports the application data, GET: consumer-lending/applications/{id}/decision - returns the application decision, POST: consumer-lending/applications/{id}/decision - sets the application decision will also be down. If you call these APIs during the maintenance window, it will result in error. There is no retry queue for these APIs, you would have to make a fresh request after the maintenance window.

Will this impact the borrower experience? Yes

Will this impact the lender experience? Yes

Affected Period:

  • Beta: March 23rd, 12AM-2AM PT
  • Beta: March 24th, 12AM-2AM PT (backup)
  • Prod: April 3rd, 12AM-2AM PT
  • Prod: April 4th, 12AM-2AM PT (backup)

 

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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