(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)

Encompass Lower Environment Migration

ICE is in the process of migrating customers’ Encompass lower environments over a period of time. If you are scheduled for migration, please be aware of the following important steps to ensure continued connectivity with Blend:

What You Need to Do:

Notify Blend Support at least 10 days in advance of your scheduled migration. This lead time is necessary for Blend to prepare and reestablish connectivity between your Encompass Beta and Blend Beta environments.

If you have received a migration notification from ICE and do not intend to delay the migration, please notify Blend Support immediately to ensure your systems remain connected.

For additional details, please refer to ICE's official documentation here:

R2T to UAT Migration Details

Maintenance Announcements (3)

(New) EKS cluster nodes maintenance 

We will be performing scheduled maintenance on our infrastructure during an upcoming maintenance window. As part of this work, we will be restarting nodes across our EKS clusters, which may result in brief service interruptions across all Blend services.

Will there be downtime associated with this maintenance?

Yes, the downtime will impact features and services in the borrower app, Yes, the downtime will impact features and services in the lender app. 

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.

What are the affected periods?

Beta: Tuesday 3/24, 12:00 AM – 2:00 AM Pacific

Prod: Tuesday 3/31, 12:00 AM – 2:00 AM Pacific

(Update) Identity Database Upgrade

Blend is upgrading our identity database from version 13 to 15.10. The production maintenance window has been moved to 3/24/26.

Will there be downtime associated with this maintenance?

There will be no anticipated downtime during the maintenance window.

What services or products are affected?

There will be no services or products affected during the maintenance window.

How will this impact the borrower app?

There will be no impacts to the borrower app.

How will this impact the lender app?

There will be no impacts to the lender app.

Maintenance Windows

• Beta: Thursday 2/19, 12:00 AM – 12:30 AM Pacific

• Production: Tuesday 3/24, 12:00 AM – 12:30 AM Pacific

Activities Database Upgrade

Blend is upgrading our activities database from version 13 to 15.10.

Will there be downtime associated with this maintenance?

There will be no anticipated downtime during the maintenance window.

What services or products are affected?

The activities page loading and activity related APIs could take longer than normal.

How will this impact the borrower app?

There will be no impacts to the borrower app.

How will this impact the lender app?

There will be no impacts to the lender app. The activities tab may load slower.

Maintenance Windows

• Beta: Tuesday 2/24, 12:00 AM – 12:30 AM Pacific

• Production: Tuesday 3/10, 12:00 AM – 12:30 AM Pacific

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

• Introducing Blend Autopilot

Production Environments (Prod) (3)

• (New) Expose Borrower SMS Consent in MISMO and APIs
• Add "Lead Source" for Optimal Blue PPE
• Upgrade Freddie LPA from 5.3 to 6.0

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