RE205 v1
Gone quiet thin evidence
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
3200 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against
- Last firmware
- 25 December 2017 (9 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.
- RE205 v2 (US) Gone quiet 6 releases
- RE205 v3 (US) Gone quiet 4 releases
- RE205 v3.6 (US) Gone quiet 1 releases
- RE205 v4 (US) Actively updated 5 releases
- RE205 v4.6 (US) Not enough evidence 1 releases
- RE205 v4.8 (US) Actively updated 3 releases
Firmware history
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RE205(US)_V1_171218 25 December 2017
Release notes — disclosure 0.52
Modifications and Bug Fixes 1. Fix the WPA2 Security (KRACKs) Vulnerability. 2. Optimize the online-detection mechanism. 3. Fix the issue that can't show the wired devices connected to the extender in the status page. 4. Disable the "Online Upgrade" function.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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RE205(US)_V1_170711 11 July 2017
Release notes — disclosure 0.06
Modifications and Bug Fixes: 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 RE205
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.