---
title: "Bitbucket Cloud API Diff APIs stop supporting the merge parameter: 2026-09-04 | Harbyn"
description: "Bitbucket Cloud API Diff APIs stop supporting the merge parameter, effective Sep 4, 2026."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/bitbucket/2026-08-24-diff-apis-stop-supporting-the-merge-parameter"
last-updated: 2026-09-29
---

# Bitbucket Cloud API Diff APIs stop supporting the merge parameter

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/bitbucket/2026-08-24-diff-apis-stop-supporting-the-merge-parameter>.

Retirement - Bitbucket Cloud API. medium severity. In effect. History: recorded after the fact.

The diff and diffstat APIs no longer support the ?merge=true parameter as of September 4, 2026. The deprecation was first announced in 2022; Atlassian's community post describes alternatives for retrieving merge conflicts.

The deadline passed on Sep 4, 2026.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [Bitbucket Cloud API](https://harbyn.com/vendors/bitbucket.md) |
| Kind | Retirement |
| Severity | medium |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Aug 24, 2026 |
| Effective | Sep 4, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Lead time | Recorded after the fact: added 25 days after the deadline |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses Bitbucket Cloud API, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/bitbucket/changelog/> (changelog, fetched 2026-09-29 02:31 UTC, sha256 `c81f25ee99fd9a1481ae86efc1c1471437f3b0391f34380f456fd4cf8d120300`)

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