Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

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TP-Link

Archer AX21 v1.26

Gone quiet thin evidence

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

1251 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against

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Last firmware
27 April 2023 (3 years ago)
Releases seen
2
Update rhythm
too few releases to model
Support observed
≥5 months
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 AX21(US)_V1.26_230426 27 April 2023

    Release notes — disclosure 0.25
    Note: 1. Improved system stability 2. Fixed some security issues
  2. Archer AX21(US)_V1.26_1.3.6 Build 20221125 2 December 2022

    Release notes — disclosure 0.58
    New Features/Enhancement: 1. Enhance device security; 2. Fixed the bug that if you manually configure DNS for IPv4 in PPPoE co-session scenarios, the ISP DNS is still configured for domain name resolution; 3. Fixed the bug that the RA configuration does not take effect correctly in specific cases during IPv6; 4. Fixed the bug that when enabling PPPoEV6, the field carried by PPPoE dial-up does not contain the service name; 5. Fixed the bug that the TimeMachine does not work under Macos13.1.

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 AX21

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

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