Deco M4 v4
Gone quiet well evidenced
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
977 days since the last release against a median gap of 175 (5.6x)
- Last firmware
- 26 January 2024 (3 years 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.
- Deco M4 v1 (US) Slowing down 6 releases
- Deco M4 v2 (US) Slowing down 5 releases
- Deco M4 v2.8 (US) Slowing down 6 releases
- Deco M4 v3 (US) Gone quiet 1 releases
- Deco M4 v4.6 (US) Gone quiet 2 releases
Firmware history
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Deco M4(US)_V4_1.1.2 Build 20231227 26 January 2024
Release notes — disclosure 0.06
Fixed some security vulnerabilities.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Deco M4(US)_V4_1.1.1 Build 20230201 3 March 2023
Release notes — disclosure 0.06
Improvement: Improved the security of the WPS.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Deco M4(US)_V4_1.1.0 Build 20230112 9 February 2023
Release notes — disclosure 0.59
New features: 1. Support for customizing Satellite Deco signal source. 2. Support for customizing Clients connection preference. 3. Support for Reboot Schedule. 4. Support for NO-IP and DynDNS. 5. Support for setting Effective Time and Bandwidth Limit for guest network. 6. Support detection of WAN-side Ethernet cable specifications and prompts for exceptions in the app. 7. Support IPv6 plus and Dual-Stack Lite. 8. Added Smart DHCP switch under Access Point mode.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Deco M4(US)_V4_1.0.2_220401 26 April 2022
Release notes — disclosure 0.31
Modifications and Bug Fixes: Improved stability and fixed some minor bugs.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Deco M4(US)_V4_1.0.0 Build 20211202 24 February 2022
Release notes — disclosure 0.06
Modifications and Bug Fixes: The 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 Deco M4
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.