diff --git a/admin/environment.xml b/admin/environment.xml
index 83cb965ea48..a376761816d 100644
--- a/admin/environment.xml
+++ b/admin/environment.xml
@@ -3781,11 +3781,6 @@
           <ON_CHECK message="tokenizerrecommended" />
         </FEEDBACK>
       </PHP_EXTENSION>
-      <PHP_EXTENSION name="xmlrpc" level="optional">
-        <FEEDBACK>
-          <ON_CHECK message="xmlrpcrecommended" />
-        </FEEDBACK>
-      </PHP_EXTENSION>
       <PHP_EXTENSION name="soap" level="optional">
         <FEEDBACK>
           <ON_CHECK message="soaprecommended" />
diff --git a/lang/en/admin.php b/lang/en/admin.php
index 0dd5135af83..96f06ce4d16 100644
--- a/lang/en/admin.php
+++ b/lang/en/admin.php
@@ -1543,7 +1543,6 @@ $string['warningcurrentsetting'] = 'Invalid current value: {$a}';
 $string['warningiconvbuggy'] = 'Your version of the iconv library does not support the //IGNORE modifier. You should install the mbstring extension which can be used instead for cleaning strings containing invalid UTF-8 characters.';
 $string['webproxy'] = 'Web proxy';
 $string['webproxyinfo'] = 'Fill in the following options if your Moodle server cannot access the internet directly. Internet access is required for the download of environment data, language packs, RSS feeds, timezones, etc.<br /><em>The PHP cURL extension is highly recommended.</em>';
-$string['xmlrpcrecommended'] = 'The XMLRPC extension is useful for web services and Moodle networking.';
 $string['xmlrpcmaharaenabled'] = 'It has been detected that the Mahara ePortfolio is enabled on your site. This feature relies on the PHP XML-RPC extension which is no longer maintained by PHP.';
 $string['xmlrpcmnetauthenticationenabled'] = 'It has been detected that the MNet authentication is enabled on your site. This feature relies on the PHP XML-RPC extension which is no longer maintained by PHP.';
 $string['xmlrpcmnetenabled'] = 'It has been detected that the Moodle Networking is enabled on your site. This feature relies on the PHP XML-RPC extension which is no longer maintained by PHP.';