Deprecating password authentication

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Deprecating password authentication

Scheduled for Sep 30, 16:00 - 19:00 UTC

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As mentioned in our developer guide, GitHub no longer supports basic authentication using a username and password. Instead, we recommend using personal access tokens or the web application flow.

Posted Sep 14, 2020 - 09:34 UTC

This scheduled maintenance affects: API Requests.

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