Blend Release Notes - 2022/11/10

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. 

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).

OS Updates On the Production Mongo Cluster

Blend will be updating our production mongo clusters. The update is to keep us in line with security patches in the future. No downtime is expected during this change.

• Prod: 2 hours maximum, November 7th, 12AM-2AM PDT
• Prod: 2 hours maximum, November 8th, 12AM-2AM PDT
• Prod: 2 hours maximum, November 9th, 12AM-2AM PDT
• Prod: 2 hours maximum, November 10th, 12AM-2AM PDT
• Prod: 2 hours maximum, November 11th, 12AM-2AM PDT

Services: Identity

(Updated 11/9) Email and SMS Notifications Database Migration

This was originally scheduled to occur on November 9th however it has been rescheduled for November 16th. Please see below for additional information.

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

• Production: November 16th, 12AM-2AM PST
• Back up: November 17th 12AM-2AM PST

Services: Email and SMS notifications

• (New) Now Available: Fee Management
• (New) Optimal Blue Product Mapping for MortgageBot Integration
• (New) Update to the Blend Platform Consumer Privacy Policy and Terms of Use 2022
• OneSpan migration: Updated pre-approval letter workflow for realtors
• Ability to add the company address to the signature block for Pre-Approval Letters (PALs)
• Ability to add Loan Originator’s Title to the signature block for pre-approval letters (PALs)
• Updated MISMO handling of self-employment fields

• (New) Mobile Check Rates
• (New) Blend Public API v5.3.0 Release

• Updated Loan Cost Worksheet Flow

• Updated lender pre-approval letter workflow for borrower recipients

• Blend Sign for Custom eSign Follow-Ups

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