Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

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TP-Link

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

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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.

Firmware history

  1. 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.
  2. RE205(US)_V1_170711 11 July 2017

    Release notes — disclosure 0.06
    Modifications and Bug Fixes: 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 RE205

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

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