Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

What vendors do, not what they announce.

TP-Link

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)

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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.

Firmware history

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Archer AXE5400(USW)_V2.6_1.0.1 Build 20251027 4 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 AXE5400

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

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