Hello There,
As a part of our security related improvements, we were planning on introducing support for Oauth 2 in Q3, this has now been preponed to Q2 thanks to shifting priorities.
Our plan is to remove support for Basic Auth (over HTTPS) in favor of OAuth 2 (more specifically, Resource owner password credentials grant)
The pull requests for the suggested changes are at (many thanks to Pramod !):
Since these are API breaking changes, APP developers would have to handle the same and are now required to register their Clients (Apps) on the platform.
Please let us know if you have any feedback or concerns related to these changes.
Note: These changes will not make it to the 15.3 (Q1) release which is due shortly