Blend Release Notes - 2022/05/20

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. 

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

Summary:

Announcements: 

Release Notes being published 2 business days earlier on Fridays

In addition to the change above, we are also working to give customers more advance notice about upcoming releases. As part of that effort, beginning today, we will start publishing finalized Release Notes in Blend Community two business days earlier (i.e., on Friday instead of Tuesday). There will no longer be a need for the “Release Preview” document, since that is currently sent on Fridays and will be replaced by the finalized version of Release Notes that will be published on the same day. Please click “Subscribe” in the Product Updates section of Blend Community to be automatically notified when Release Notes are published each Friday.

Maintenance Announcements: 

Updating networking related to core lending backend:

• The Blend application may be briefly inaccessible to certain users for a period of up to 2 minutes. It will not be fully down, but certain requests may fail while we are rotating the service. Users will be able to retry those requests and proceed in the application.

        Maintenance Window: 

• Beta: Friday May 20, ~2pm PT,  up to 2 minutes

• Prod: Tuesday May 24, 12am-2am PT, up to 2 minutes

Blend fee collection service network maintenance

• The platform and infra team will be performing maintenance for routine network updates for the fee collection service. This will cause about 20 minutes of downtime for that service (only) in production during the 60 minute maintenance window. Borrowers will not be able to submit payment for tasks during this time. We do not expect any other impacts to the platform.  

        Maintenance Window: Tuesday 5/24 12-1am PT (60 minutes)

• Beta: 20 minutes down downtime, 10 minutes validation

• Prod: 20 minutes down downtime, 10 minutes validation

Blend services database maintenance

• Blend will be updating database services to apply standard security updates. These changes are transparent to the application experience and not intended to impact core business functions.  Please note: the dates and times labeled with (if necessary) will only be used for downtime if there is a need for additional maintenance. 

        Maintenance Window:

• Beta: 10 minutes downtime

  • Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 @ 12AM - 2AM PST

  • Thursday, June 23rd 2022 @ 12AM - 2AM PST (if necessary)

• Prod: 10 minutes downtime

  • Wednesday June 29th 2022 @12AM - 2AM PST

  • Thursday, June 30th 2022 @ 12AM - 2AM PST (if necessary)

  • Friday, July 1st 2022 @ 12AM - 2AM PST (if necessary)

Preview Environments (Test/Beta/Dev)

• (New) The Work Number (TWN) NuOFX integration: Manual VOI and other new lender-side functionalities - Beta 5/24, Prod 6/21

Production Environments (Prod)

• (New) LOS Milestone updates in Velocify - Available Now (Opt-In)
• (New) New email notification to closers for hybrid closings - Available Now

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