Archer AXE5400 v2.6
Actively updated reasonably evidenced
firmware is arriving about as often as it always has
9 days since the last release against a median gap of 130 (0.1x)
- Last firmware
- 20 September 2026 (9 days ago)
- Releases seen
- 3
- Update rhythm
- about every 4 months
- Support observed
- ≥9 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.
- Archer AXE5400 v1 (USW) Actively updated 13 releases
- Archer AXE5400 v1.6 (USW) Actively updated 13 releases
Firmware history
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Archer AXE5400(USW)_V2.6_1.2.0 Build 20260603 20 September 2026
Release notes — disclosure 0.11
Modifications and Bug Fixes 1. Improve overall performance and security.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Archer AXE5400(USW)_V2.6_1.1.0 Build 20251124 21 January 2026
Release notes — disclosure 0.11
Modifications and Bug Fixes: 1. Improved overall performance and security.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Archer AXE5400(USW)_V2.6_1.0.1 Build 20251027 4 January 2026
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 AXE5400
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.