Blend Release Notes- 2024/01/26

(Note: you can download the Release Notes PDF in the Release Notes PDFs section 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 help.blend.com.

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

Announcements (0) 

Maintenance Announcements (2)

(New) RDS Instances Upgrade

Description: 

We will be upgrading our RDS instances in our Beta and Prod environments to take advantage of AWS's new graviton instances. All instances in Beta and Prod that are currently running on non-graviton instances will be switched to graviton ones. This will require a small amount of downtime for several services at Blend.

Will there be downtime associated with this maintenance?

Yes

If there will be downtime, will any failed tasks be retried after maintenance is done?

All affected tasks will be retried after maintenance is finished, particularly disclosures.

What services or products are affected? 

App-engine,borrower-sync,coordinate-organizer,disclosures,envelope,event-comparer,identity,income-verification,platform-reports,pricing

How will this impact the borrower app?

Some requests may fail to the app during this time. All areas of the app will be affected.

How will this impact the lender app?

Some requests may fail to the app during this time. All areas of the app will be affected.

Beta period: 

12am-2am PT ~ Thursday Feb 15th 2024

Prod period: 

12am-2am PT ~ Thursday Feb 22nd 2024

Email and SMS Database Maintenance 

Description:
Blend will be conducting maintenance on the Email and SMS database. This will result in a 5-minute downtime window.

Will there be downtime?
Yes

If there will be downtime, will any failed tasks be retried after maintenance is done?
No

What services or products are affected?
Email communications, SMS communications, Blend MFA

How will this impact the borrower app?
Borrowers may see an error message when attempting to complete an application during this time. There may be issues with performing MFA during this time. After the downtime, the borrower will be able to retry any failed actions.

How will this impact the lender app?
Lenders will receive an error message when attempting to send follow ups, invite the borrower to an application, or perform MFA during the downtime.

Time periods for beta?
No impact in beta

Time periods for prod?
February 6, 2024: 12am-1am PST

Preview Environments (Test/Dev/Beta) (7)

• (New) Copy updates for view-only documents in OneSpan
• (Update 1/31) Salesforce Managed Package v5.14 Release
• Support for temporary buydown products
• Update to the Blend Platform Consumer Privacy Policy and Terms of Use 2024
• Existing users will receive better feedback when attempting to sign up for a new Blend account
• Support for team grouping and loan views by groups
• Support for military income

Production Environments (Test/Dev/Beta) (0)

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