(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)

No new announcements this week. 

Maintenance Announcements (2)

(New) EKS AMI Upgrade

We will be upgrading the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) used by our EKS clusters. This upgrade requires restarting workloads across the clusters, which may cause brief service interruptions across all Blend services. The maintenance window is expected to last approximately two hours.

Will there be downtime associated with this maintenance?

Yes. During the maintenance window, users may experience short periods of downtime affecting features and services in both the borrower app and the lender app. All services may be intermittently impacted as workloads are restarted.

What services or products are affected?
All Blend services will be affected and may experience short, intermittent interruptions during the maintenance window.

How will this impact the borrower app?
Borrowers may experience brief periods where features in the borrower app are unavailable or slow to respond while workloads are restarted.

How will this impact the lender app?
Lenders may experience brief periods where features in the lender app are unavailable or slow to respond while workloads are restarted.

Maintenance Windows

• Beta: Tuesday 2/10, 12:00 AM – 2:00 AM Pacific
  
  

• Production: Tuesday 2/17, 12:00 AM – 2:00 AM Pacific

(New) One Span Maintenance 

Update 1/8/2025: The OneSpan maintenance has been postponed to 1/16/25, 9-10PM. 

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

Will there be downtime associated with this maintenance?

Yes, there will be downtime. Existing e-sign tasks will be able to be re-opened once maintenance is over. Failed creation of disclosures, closings, or other e-sign tasks will not automatically be retried. Users will need to re-attempt creating or issuing e-sign tasks.

What services or products are affected? 

E-sign tasks utilizing Onespan will be affected. This includes creating new disclosure packages, closings, and some follow-up e-sign tasks.

How will this impact the borrower app?

Borrowers will be unable to access or complete outstanding e-sign tasks. This does not impede in-progress applications but may affect a borrower’s ability to review or sign any previously delivered disclosure packages, closings, or other e-sign follow-ups.

How will this impact the lender app?

Lenders will be unable to open the Onespan signing task for disclosure packages requiring lender signatures or create any e-sign follow-ups.

What are the affected periods for beta?

This maintenance will have no impact on beta environments. 

What are affected periods for production environments?.

Estimated downtime of 1 hour between 9pm-10pm PDT on January 16th, 2026. 

Preview Environments (Test/Dev/Beta) (4)

• (New) Turnstile Security Enhancement
  (New) Upgrade Freddie LPA from 5.3 to 6.0
• Settlement Agent Workspace & Blend Agent App Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Update
• Annual Consumer Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Update

Production Environments (Prod) (4)

• (New) Prevent Passwords from Containing Email Addresses
• (New) Encompass Loan Updates Now Support Loan Template Inclusion

• (New) Intent to Proceed Date Now Published in Lender Local Timezone

• (New) Encompass Partner Document Delivery Defaulting Enhancements

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