Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

What vendors do, not what they announce.

TP-Link

RE105 v5.6

Gone quiet thin evidence

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

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

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Last firmware
5 January 2024 (3 years ago)
Releases seen
2
Update rhythm
too few releases to model
Support observed
≥11 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. RE105(US)_V5.6_1.0.13 Build 231115 5 January 2024

    Release notes — disclosure 0.49
    Note: 1. Fixed the bug that clients can not access the Internet in some cases; 2. Fixed the bug that some IoT devices can't connect to 2.4G WiFi.
  2. RE105(US)_V5.6_1.0.12 Build 221109 7 February 2023

    Release notes — disclosure 0.31
    Note: Added the support of WPA3 encryption

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 RE105

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

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