Blend Release Notes - 2022/09/16

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

There are no new announcements this week.

Maintenance Announcements

Connectivity Database Upgrade Maintenance

The Connectivity Database Upgrade for beta and production environments has been pushed out by a week. The new dates are as follows:

• Prod: Expecting 2 hours, 4 hours maximum, September 20, 12AM-4AM PDT
• September 21 12AM - 4AM (backup option)

Connectivity services will be moving from using RDS to AWS Aurora. Postgres major version upgrade from 10.17 -> 13.7

Expected downtime: 2 hours

Services: Connectivity

Impact:

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.

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.

• Beta: 2 hours maximum, September 21st, 12AM-2AM PDT
• Prod: 2 hours maximum, September 23rd, 12AM-2AM PDT

Identity Database Upgrade

Description:
The Blend Identity service that had previously been scheduled for September 7 (beta) and September 9 (prod) and communicated on August 19th in this post as been rescheduled as follows. Blend will be upgrading its primary database from PostgreSQL 10.20 to 12.10.

• Beta: 2 hours maximum, September 21, 12AM-2AM PDT
• Prod: 2 hours maximum, September 23, 12AM-2AM PDT

Services: Identity

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