Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

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ASUS

PL-AC56

Gone quiet thin evidence

no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record

3350 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against

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Last firmware
28 July 2017 (9 years ago)
Releases seen
2
Update rhythm
too few releases to model
Support observed
≥1 year
Vendor's promise
no support period we can evaluate
Patch latency
not measurable — its changelogs name no CVE ids

Firmware history

  1. 3.0.0.4.380.7645 28 July 2017

    Release notes — disclosure 0.34
    Release note- Fix WLAN can't connect to WPA-Auto-Personal/Enterprise+AES setting via WAP-Personal/Enterprise+AES.- Add LLDT icon.- Fix when a powerline system have 2 PL-AC56, the second PL-AC56 can't be paired with PL-E56P.
  2. 3.0.0.4.380.2741 3 June 2016

    Release notes — disclosure 0.31
    The first version of firmware for PL-AC56

Evidence

2 archived pages sit behind this record, the earliest read on 2 August 2026. Everything above was read from them, and each is kept byte for byte so it can be checked after the vendor edits the original.

Identifiers: marketing_name PL-AC56 · openwrt_id asus_pl-ac56

Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026. How these verdicts are computed.

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