diff --git a/changelog.html b/changelog.html
index 6c0280fbe5d122951b63fd26f760d54e130eb731..22b69fae8e181edca23972d9d5008658fd2671e8 100644
--- a/changelog.html
+++ b/changelog.html
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ Upcoming changes</a>
   <li class=bug>
     post build deployment task fails with : Unbuffered entity enclosing request can not be repeated.
     (<a href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-10076">issue 10076</a>)
+  <li class=rfe>
+    Added SSH public key based CLI authentication
 </ul>
 </div><!--=TRUNK-END=-->
 
diff --git a/war/pom.xml b/war/pom.xml
index bdc62a84bb0227202c132c180ebcf2c86c4027eb..8cb11ed82a9dc963a6e5201c935abc09f31f9b4a 100644
--- a/war/pom.xml
+++ b/war/pom.xml
@@ -293,6 +293,11 @@ THE SOFTWARE.
       <artifactId>instance-identity</artifactId>
       <version>1.1</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.jenkins-ci.modules</groupId>
+      <artifactId>ssh-cli-auth</artifactId>
+      <version>1.1</version>
+    </dependency>
 
     <!-- offline profiler API when we need it -->
     <!--dependency>