Jenkins not following symlink of archived directory since upgrade to 1.615

In my environment, to save disk space, I move a directory that is an archive onto another file server and create a symlink pointing to this location. This was working fine using version 1.594.

I just upgraded from 1.594 to 1.615

After the upgrade, I noticed those links are not accessible anymore in Jenkins, even though they exist on the file system.

See attached screenshot.