Blend Release Notes - 2025/03/14

(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 (3)

(New) Kubernetes Minor Version Upgrade

Blend will be upgrading beta and prod kubernetes clusters (EKS) from version 1.28 to 1.29. The total downtime for this maintenance is anticipated to be less than 5 minutes. 

What are the affected periods for beta environments?
12am-2am PT Tuesday April 1, 2025

What are affected periods for prod environments?
12am-2am PT Tuesday April 8, 2025
 

(New) Database Maintenance

Blend will be performing maintenance on a postgres-shared database in production and beta environments. The total downtime for this maintenance is anticipated to be less than 5 minutes. 

What are the affected periods for beta environments?
12am-2am PT Tuesday, March 25, 2025

What are affected periods for prod environments?
12am-2am PT Thursday, April 17, 2025
 

Income Verification Provider Maintenance

Blend’s Income Verification partner, Truework, will be performing a required PostgreSQL minor version upgrade in March 2025. During this time, there may be temporary service interruptions for income verifications for production environments. Verification requests made while the maintenance is ongoing may fail, and failed requests will not be retried. 

What are affected periods for prod environments?
Sunday, March 16, 2025 from 4:00 AM to 5:00 AM PT (7:00 AM to 8:00 AM ET). The maintenance should last only a few minutes within this window. 
 

Preview Environments (Test/Dev/Beta) (6)

• (New) 1-click Download for RON Closings
• (New) Automated Follow-Up Email Timer Set to 20 Minutes (Builder Platform)
• Blend is Partnering with Truework for Income and Employment Verification (VOIE)
• DU 1.9 Update
• (Update) LPA 5.4 Update
• LO Toolkit Support for 3+ Borrowers 
   

Production Environments (Prod) (1) 

• Updated Default Consent to Contact
   

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