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Release Notes March 24, 2023
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)
Maintenance Announcements (4)
Preview Environments (Test/Dev/Beta) (5)
Production Environments (Prod) (0)
Announcements (2)
(New) 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)
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)
Docmagic Maintenance
Description: Blend will be making updates to our Docmagic machines.
Will this impact the borrower experience? Yes. Docmagic enotes will not be generated and borrowers won’t be able to sign the eNote.
Will this impact the lender experience? Yes. Docmagic enotes will not be generated.
Affected Period:
Beta: 2hrs maximum, March 23, 10PM-11PM PT
Prod: 2hrs maximum, March 28, 12AM-1AM PT
Prod: 2hrs maximum, March 30, 12AM-1AM PT
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)
Kubernetes Clusters Nodes Update
Description: Blend will be updating our Kubernetes clusters nodes. This will enable more efficient use of our resources by introducing a percentage of AWS Spot instances into our cluster. No interruption to Blend services is expected.
Affected Period:
Beta: 2 hours maximum on each of Jan 25, Feb 1, Feb 8, Feb 15, Feb 22
Prod: 2 hours maximum on each of March 15, March 22, March 29
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