+1

I support this proposal. We’ve seen another case recently of a problem with 
this antiquated mode. We have had to adjust tests to continue supporting it.

I don’t think there is enough value in continuing to support it, particularly 
with the costs to keep coaxing it along.

Jeff Thompson

> On Jan 4, 2019, at 2:42 PM, Jesse Glick <jgl...@cloudbees.com> wrote:
> 
> As of JENKINS-41745, merged in Jenkins 2.54 more than a year and a
> half ago, the Remoting transport for the Jenkins CLI has been
> deprecated as inherently hard to secure and just plain unwise. As far
> as I know, all important CLI commands have long since removed any
> dependency on this mode, or offered an alternative mode. The UI warns
> you if you enable it. Is it time to finally remove this code?
> 
> I bring this up now because of Java 11 work:
> 
> https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/3759
> 
> made the physical layout of Jenkins core more complex, just in order
> to maintain some exploit tests which were really only interesting in
> CLI over Remoting, and not even that interesting anyway after JEP-200.
> (Deserialization attacks via agents could still be launched, but
> again, that would be much harder after JEP-200.)
> 
> I propose this `jenkins-test-jdk8` module and its three test suites
> and ysoserial library be deleted, whether or not CLI over Remoting is
> also removed, so that we can remove `jenkins-test-parent` and go back
> to having only `jenkins-test`.
> 
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