Archer Air E5 v1.6
Slowing down well evidenced
updates are coming less often than this product's own history
377 days since the last release against a median gap of 198 (1.9x)
- Last firmware
- 17 September 2025 (1 year ago)
- Releases seen
- 5
- Update rhythm
- about every 6 months
- Support observed
- ≥2 years
- 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.
- Archer Air E5 v1 (US) Slowing down 5 releases
Firmware history
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Archer Air E5(US)_V1.60_1.1.10 Build 20250807 17 September 2025
Release notes — disclosure 0.11
Modifications and Bug Fixes 1. Improved overall performance and stability.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Archer Air E5(US)_V1.6_1.1.3 Build 20240904 28 November 2024
Release notes — disclosure 0.36
Modifications: 1.Added Tether EasyMesh functionality. 2.Introduced automatic upgrade capability.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Archer Air E5(US)_V1.6_1.1.2 Build 20230907 20 February 2024
Release notes — disclosure 0.35
Modifications: 1.Added support for using USB to Ethernet adapter to log in to the router management page in user mode. 2.Ehanced EasyMesh. 3.Enhanced device stability.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Archer Air E5(US)_V1.6_1.1.1 Build 20230727 30 October 2023
Release notes — disclosure 0.06
Note: Enhanced Wi-Fi stability.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Archer Air E5(US)_V1.6_1.1.0 Build 20230620 14 September 2023
Release notes — disclosure 0.30
First firmware released.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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 Air E5
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.