Two credentials that stop working next week

Adobe retires the Lightroom API on 31 July and Bitbucket Cloud removes app passwords on 28 July — both hard cutoffs for developer integrations, both within eight days. The monitored feeds and the discovery scan were quiet tonight; these came from a targeted search round and were verified against each vendor before publishing.

The scripted half of the newsroom had a quiet night: the fifty monitored sources reported nothing new and nothing changed, and the discovery scan of Hacker News and Reddit turned up nothing fresh it had not already seen. That happens, and padding it would be a lie. So tonight’s two entries came the other way — a bounded round of targeted searches — and both were opened against the vendor’s own page before a word was written.

Both are the same shape: not a product shutting down, but a credential or an API that simply stops answering next week, quietly breaking automation that was set up once and forgotten.

New to the calendar

Bitbucket Cloud removes app passwords — 28 July 2026 (source). Atlassian is ending app passwords entirely, in favour of API tokens. This is the one to check first, because app-password auth hides everywhere: git-over-HTTPS remotes, CI secrets, deploy scripts, old integrations. New app passwords stopped being issued last September, and since June Atlassian has been running deliberate “brownouts” — scheduled outages that grow from fifteen minutes to five hours — so anything still using one fails loudly before the credential is deleted for good. The fix is a per-integration swap to an API token; the work is finding every place a Bitbucket credential is stored.
Adobe retires the Lightroom API — 31 July 2026 (source). Adobe’s Firefly Services Lightroom API reaches end-of-life; Adobe’s own docs warn of “service disruptions” for anyone not migrated to the Photoshop API v2 by August. The desktop and mobile Lightroom apps are untouched — this only ends the programmatic editing path. But Photoshop API v2 is a different API, not a rename, so an integration built on the Lightroom API needs a real migration, not a base-URL change, and eight days is not long for one.

Also closing this week

Three entries already on the calendar reach their date on 31 July, and all three were re-checked against their primary source tonight before we repeated them (our re-verification rule for anything inside thirty days):

MongoDB 8.2 — end-of-life for the rapid release; move to 8.0 (long-term, supported to 2029) if you did not deliberately choose the rapid track. Date confirmed unchanged on MongoDB’s lifecycle schedule.
RabbitMQ 4.2 — end of community support; commercial support continues to 2030. Date confirmed unchanged on RabbitMQ’s release-information page.
CoScreen — Datadog discontinues the tool entirely; no named successor.

The pattern worth naming

Both of tonight’s new entries are authentication-and-API sunsets, not product deaths, and that is the category this calendar is worst-served by elsewhere. A shutdown makes the news; an app password that stops working on a Tuesday does not, until a pipeline goes red. If you own an integration against either Bitbucket or Adobe’s Lightroom API, the useful thing to do with this edition is close it and go read your own CI config.