Blend Release Notes - 2023/05/12

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Release Notes

May 12, 2023

(Note: you can download the Release Notes PDF 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 https://help.blend.com/

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

 

Announcements (0)

 

Maintenance Announcements (5)

  • (New) OneSpan maintenance and downtime
  • (New) Kubernetes Spot Instance Maintenance
  • (New) Kubernetes Instance Type Upgrade
  • Maintenance for Postgres 14 Upgrade for Pricing and AUS
  • Kubernetes Spot Instance Maintenance

 

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

 

Production Environments (Prod) (3)

 

Maintenance Announcements (5)

(New) OneSpan maintenance and downtime

Description: OneSpan has a scheduled maintenance of up to 3 hours on 5/21/2023 starting 12:00 AM EST that will affect tenants that are configured to use OneSpan as their eSign provider.

What services or products are affected?

Documents service is affected on outgoing calls to OneSpan which will include being able to create new eSign envelopes as well as access existing eSign envelopes.

Will this impact the borrower app?

Yes. Borrowers with outstanding packages and disclosures involving eSignable documents in OneSpan will fail to load and they will be unable to review/sign/complete them during this downtime.

Will this impact the lender app?

Yes. Lenders issuing disclosures (that include eSignable documents) for tenants that are configured to use OneSpan by default will fallback and be created in DocuSign instead.

Affected Period:
● Beta & Prod: May 21, 12am - 3am EST

 

(New) Kubernetes Spot Instance Maintenance

Description

Blend will be conducting maintenance on our Kubernetes clusters to replace a number of nodes with Spot instances.

What products or services will be affected during the maintenance window (platforms, applications, integrations, n/a, etc.): No expected disruption to services. The maintenance will only impact our Kubernetes infrastructure and will only be conducted on beta environments during the window listed below.

Will this impact the borrower and lender experience?

No.

Affected Period:

  • Beta: May 30, 11:59pm - 2am (Tuesday night - Wednesday morning, Pacific time zone)

     

(New) Kubernetes Instance Type Upgrade

Description:

Blend will be conducting maintenance on our Kubernetes clusters to upgrade our ec2 instances to the latest generation machine types.

What products or services will be affected during the maintenance window (platforms, applications, integrations, n/a, etc.):

No expected disruption to services. The maintenance will only impact our Kubernetes infrastructure and will only be conducted on prod environments during the window listed below.

Will this impact the borrower experience?
No

Will this impact the lender experience?
No

Affected Period:

  • Prod: June 7, 11:59pm - 2am (Wednesday night - Thursday morning, Pacific time zone)

     

Maintenance for Postgres 14 Upgrade for Pricing and AUS

Description:

Blend will be upgrading the engine version of our production databases to Postgres 14 for Pricing and AUS.

What services or products are affected?

AUS and Pricing.

Will this impact the borrower and lender experience?

Yes. Lenders and borrowers will experience error messages if Pricing or AUS is attempted during the maintenance window.

Affected Period:

●  Prod: AUS - May 15 11:59 PM - 2 am PST
●  Prod: Pricing - May 16 11:59 PM - 2 am PST

 

Kubernetes Spot Instance Maintenance

Description:

Blend will be conducting maintenance on our Kubernetes clusters to replace a
number of nodes with Spot instances

There is no expected disruption to products or services. This will not impact the borrower or
lender experience.

Affected Period:

  • Prod: April 19th, 2023, April 26th, 2023, 11:59pm - 2am
  • Prod: May 10, May 17 - 11:59pm - 2am (Wednesday night - Thursday morning)

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