Skip to content
Create account or Sign in
The Stripe Docs logo
/
Create accountSign in

HTTP Accept headers for webhooks now specify JSON during Issuing authorizationsBreaking changes

What’s new

Webhooks emitted for Issuing real-time authorizations now specify application/json in the request Accept header. This change improves the clarity of content negotiation, because real-time authorization webhooks require a JSON response from your integration.

Why is this a breaking change?

Your webhook handler might return an HTTP response code 406 if it doesn’t support JSON as a response format. These errors are visible in Workbench. If you use Issuing real-time authorizations, a response code other than 200 might cause your authorizations to decline.

Impact

Issuing real-time authorizations require JSON responses to issuing_authorization.request webhooks. Those webhooks’ Accept headers now specify application/json in order to align with that requirement.

Upgrade

  1. View your current API version in Workbench.
  2. If you use an SDK, upgrade to the corresponding SDK version for this API version.
    • If you don’t use an SDK, update your API requests to include Stripe-Version: 2025-03-31.basil
  3. Upgrade the API version used for webhook endpoints.
  4. Test your integration against the new version.
  5. If you use Connect, test your Connect integration.
  6. In Workbench, perform the upgrade. You can roll back the version for 72 hours.

Learn more about Stripe API upgrades.

Related changes

Was this page helpful?
YesNo