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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
Add Custom Questions to Borrower and Lender Workflows
We have a limited number of spots available as we roll out an exciting new feature, custom questions. This is currently available for testing, and we’re looking for a few customers to pilot with us. If your LOS is Empower or Encompass Next Gen and you’re interested in adding custom questions to your application (either borrower and/or lender) please reach out to your Account Partner for more information.
Feature Releases through End of 2022
Like every year, Blend will be implementing code freezes over Thanksgiving and the winter holidays. No regular releases or changes to production will occur during the following time periods (endpoints inclusive):
What this means for customers:
No Required features will be introduced to customer production environments during the longer Winter code freeze.
Release Notes during the week of Thanksgiving will be posted on Wednesday, November 23, instead of Friday, due to the holiday.
If there are existing and previously-communicated features that you would like to enable in your beta or production environments during either code freeze, you may do so at your discretion. Contact Blend Support or your Blend representative for assistance.
If you have any questions, please contact Blend Support or your Blend representative.
New Integration with The Work Number® by Equifax for Verification of Income and Employment
In late 2021/early 2022, Blend built and announced a new integration with The Work Number® by Equifax for Verification of Income and Employment. This new enhanced integration gives you access to additional Equifax mortgage income and employment verification services, in addition to other benefits. In order to access these additional services, you must migrate your current integration to the new one. Equifax will no longer offer support for the old integration effective December 1, 2022. Blend sent announcements about this to impacted customers in early 2022 via email, and most customers have already migrated to the new integration. If you have not migrated yet or have any questions, please reach out to your Blend Account Team and/or Blend Support (support@blend.com).
Maintenance Announcements
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(New) Post-ITP Fee Collection maintenance
Blend will be performing maintenance on the Fee Collection services. Borrowers may not be able to complete payment follow-ups for a very brief period (less than five minutes expected).
Affected Period:
Webhooks database migration
Blend will be migrating our webhook events database to improve scalability and reliability. During this maintenance, all webhook events will be queued and retried after the maintenance has completed.
Affected Period:
Connectivity Database Maintenance
Blend will be performing maintenance to the connectivity service’s production database. Borrowers will not be able to connect assets and credit functionalities will not work.
Any public api endpoints for credit and assets connectivity will experience timeouts. The events received during this period will be queued and retried after maintenance is complete.
Expected downtime: Expecting less than 5mins. Maximum: 2 hours.
Affected Period:
Configurations database migration
Blend will be migrating our configurations database to improve scalability and reliability. We don't expect any service downtime during this period, and if there is downtime, our internal services have local configuration caches they can fall back on, so customers should not experience any disruptions to functionality.
Affected Period:
(Updated) Email and SMS Notifications Database Migration
This was previously announced in the October 14th Release Notes and was scheduled to be performed on November 9th. This has now been rescheduled to occur on December 15th.
Blend will be migrating our production database to improve scalability and performance. This will impact borrowers' ability to receive email as well as lenders’ ability to send them. Emails sent during this time will need to be resent after the maintenance is complete. Because this will impact automated notification emails for disclosures issued during the affected period, we suggest not issuing disclosures during the affected period or alerting borrowers to their disclosures through another method.
Expected downtime: 2 hours Services: Email and SMS notifications
Affected Period:
Preview Environments Releases (Test/Dev/Beta)
Releases below without (New) in front were previously announced but are still in Beta.
Production Environment Releases (Prod)
Releases below without (New) in front were previously announced in Beta but are now moved to Prod.
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