# REMINDER: Cloud and Wowza Video upgrades necessary for Authentication

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/reminder-cloud-and-wowza-video-upgrades-necessary-for-authentication/95414
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [September 19, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/reminder-cloud-and-wowza-video-upgrades-necessary-for-authentication/95414 "2022-09-19T19:39:13Z")
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### Author: ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/reminder-cloud-and-wowza-video-upgrades-necessary-for-authentication/95414/1 "2022-09-19T19:39:13Z")

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Hello, just a friendly reminder for the Cloud customers and also those of you that use Wowza Video: We will be updating the API to version 1.9 next week which only uses the JWT auth method. So the old access API keys won’t work in 1.9.

**You can still use either API keys or JWT in 1.6 - 1.8 until deprecated.**

But we urge you to update as soon as you can. You have time before the other versions are deprecated, but wanted to make sure you allow time to make these changes.

 ![Screen Shot 2022-09-19 at 1.27.07 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/wowza1/original/2X/b/b46220cc79664599ac54f9fb7ee1d1bf9670e503.png)  
  

**Here is the doc for more info:**

> **[REST API reference in Wowza Video](https://developer.wowza.com/docs/wowza-video/about-the-rest-api/api-overview/)**
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> Learn how to use the Wowza Video REST API reference.

  

**And a blog explaining what JWT is and why we are switching:**

> **[Upgrade Your Wowza Video API Authentication to Use JSON Web Tokens](https://www.wowza.com/blog/json-web-tokens-for-secure-and-flexible-authentication)**
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> Wowza Video is transitioning to a JSON Web Token-based authentication scheme. Here's how to authenticate requests using JSON Web Tokens.

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### Author: ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/reminder-cloud-and-wowza-video-upgrades-necessary-for-authentication/95414/2 "2022-09-19T19:44:54Z")

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