Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

What vendors do, not what they announce.

TP-Link

Archer A8 v2.46

Not enough evidence thin evidence

we looked and will not guess — the reason is recorded below

only 1 release(s), too few to model a cadence

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Last firmware
21 January 2026 (8 months ago)
Releases seen
1
Update rhythm
too few releases to model
Support observed
—
Vendor's promise
no support period we can evaluate
Patch latency
not measurable — its changelogs name no CVE ids

Which one do I have?

TP-Link ships this model in more than one hardware revision, and they do not share firmware. The revision is printed on the label on the underside, usually after the model — Ver 1.0, V4.6. Getting it wrong is the easiest way to read the wrong answer here.

Firmware history

  1. Archer A8(US)_V2.46_1.13.6 Build 240430 21 January 2026

    Release notes — disclosure 0.30
    First firmware released.

Evidence

One archived page sits behind this record, the earliest read on 1 August 2026. Everything above was read from it, and each is kept byte for byte so it can be checked after the vendor edits the original.

Identifiers: marketing_name Archer A8

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

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