(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 (2)

(New) Beta Training Environment URL Deprecation

As a part of a security infrastructure update, Blend is routing customer-facing application traffic through Cloudflare. As a result, legacy beta environment URLs using blendlabs.com without the beta subdomain will become inaccessible after November 9, 2026. This change affects the beta environment only. Your production environment won't be impacted. For example, myclient.training.blendlabs.com would be impacted by this change; however, myclient.beta.blendlabs.com wouldn't be impacted.

Please reach out to your Blend account representative if you have any questions.

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 (2)

Scheduled Network Maintenance: API Traffic Routing Update 

Blend is routing Public API traffic to api.blend.com and api.blendlabs.com through Cloudflare's web application firewall (WAF) to strengthen protection against denial-of-service (DDoS) and application-layer attacks. Your API endpoints, credentials, and request and response formats will remain unchanged. Please reach out to your Blend account representative if you have any questions.

Will there be downtime associated with this maintenance?

No downtime is expected.

What services or products are affected?

Any API calls being made to api.blend.com and api.blendlabs.com. This includes vendor integrations, inbound notification webhooks, and the Blend Lender mobile app. Home Lending applications, Documents, Disclosures, Follow-ups, Closings and Configurable Products are all reachable through these endpoints.

How will this impact the borrower app?

No impact. The borrower application is served on a separate path and does not route through the Public API. Borrower-facing traffic is unchanged by this migration.

How will this impact the lender app?

No impact. The lender web application is unaffected, as it does not route through the Public API.

Maintenance Windows

• Beta: Monday 9/28, 12:00 AM - 2:00 AM Pacific

• Production: Monday 10/12, 12:00 AM - 2:00 AM Pacific

Blend Signing Room (RON) Database Migration

Blend is migrating the Signing Room (RON) database from RDS PostgreSQL to an upgraded Aurora PostgreSQL cluster.

Will there be downtime associated with this maintenance?

Yes. RON closings will be unavailable for approximately 40 minutes while the database migration is in progress. Inbound events will replay automatically once the service recovers. The following actions will not retry automatically and must be performed again manually if initiated during the downtime window: RON sends, appointment schedule confirmations, draft room creation, and Title365 order pushes. No application data will be deleted or lost as a result of this maintenance.

What services or products are affected?

Remote Online Notarization (RON) closings will be affected during the maintenance window. Traditional and hybrid closings are not affected, nor are any other parts of the borrower or lender applications.

How will this impact the borrower app?

Borrowers will be unable to open the signing room or complete the pre-appointment device test. Any notarization ceremony in progress will be interrupted and will need to be rescheduled.

How will this impact the lender app?

Lenders will be unable to send a RON closing or make changes to an existing one. Notaries will be unable to confirm a RON appointment. Ops and notary users in Blend Bridge may see errors on any task list that contains a RON task.

Maintenance Windows

• Beta: There will be no impact to beta.

• Production: Tuesday 10/27, 12:00 AM - 2:00 AM Pacific

Preview Environments (Test/Dev/Beta) (3)

• (New) Blend Public API v13 Release
• Self-Serve Email Resend from the Communications Tab
• Desktop Underwriter Findings PDF

Production Environments (Prod) (5)

• (New) Factual Data: Innovis Early View (IEV) Without a Credit Score
• (New) Manage Borrowers Save Returns to the Loan
• Suppress Loan Estimate Notifications for Non-Borrowing Owners
• Document Size Optimization
• Disclosure Package Limits: Per-Loan Cap Improvements

Autopilot Changelog (1)

• (New) Changelog

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