Blend Release Notes - 2024/10/18

(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 (1)

(New) LO Toolkit Support for 3+ Borrowers Update for Encompass Customers

We've identified an issue where non-sharing borrowers are not syncing fully from Blend to Encompass when using the "LO Toolkit Support for 3+ Borrowers" feature (currently in beta).

Encompass Customers:

• If you have this feature enabled in your beta environment, please contact Blend support at support@blend.com to receive a temporary workaround.
• You can continue testing the feature with the workaround in place.

Once this issue has been resolved, we will send out an additional update. 

Important Note:
This issue only affects customers exporting loans to Encompass where non-joint borrowers are indicated as having joint ownership of an asset or liability in Blend.

 

Maintenance Announcements (3)

(New) Scheduled Maintenance - MongoDB Machine Restarts

We will be performing maintenance to restart our MongoDB machines. This will be done in both beta and production environments, and will not result in any downtime. 

What are the affected periods for beta environments?
3am-5am Pacific Time on Tuesday, November 5, 2024

What are the affected periods for production environments? 
3am-5am Pacific Time on Wednesday, November 6, 2024

(New) Scheduled Maintenance - Kubernetes Minor Version Upgrade

We will be performing maintenance to upgrade our kubernetes cluster from version 1.26 to 1.27 during our regularly scheduled maintenance hours. The maintenance is expected to take the full two hours of the listed affected periods below, and we anticipate less than five minutes of total downtime within this window. 

What are the affected periods for beta environments?
12am-2am Pacific Time on Tuesday, November 19, 2024

What are the affected periods for production environments? 
12am-2am Pacific Time on Tuesday, December 3, 2024

OneSpan eSign Provider Maintenance

One of Blend’s eSign vendors, OneSpan, has announced recurring downtime for maintenance. These downtimes will result in periods where lender and borrower users will not be able to create new eSign envelopes or sign outstanding envelopes. 

Existing eSign tasks will be able to be reopened once maintenance is over.

Failed creation of disclosures, closings, or other eSign tasks will not automatically be retried. Users will need to re-attempt creating or issuing eSign tasks.

Will there be a maintenance page during this time? 

No.

What are the affected periods for beta and production? 

• October 19, 2024, 9pm - 2am Pacific
• November 16, 2024, 9pm - 2am Pacific

Preview Environments (Test/Dev/Beta) (1)

• LO Toolkit Support for 3+ Borrowers

Production Environments (Prod) (9)

•  Borrower Home Configurability
• Land/Lot loans now formally supported for Encompass customers
• SSO Login Button text is now configurable
• Additional endpoint to expose Configurable Products Applications Node Instance data in the Reporting API v10
• Allow borrowers to share their preferred closing method
• Display borrower's preferred closing method in the lender workspace
• Allow Non Borrowing Owners (NBOs) to receive direct links to attend the RON signing session
• Addresses in the Footer in the Adverse Action Notice (AAN) Document Now Reflect the Address fields in the Organization Settings
• Standardizing Manufactured Home Questions in Optimal Blue Pricing Integration

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