RE205 v4
Actively updated well evidenced
firmware is arriving about as often as it always has
97 days since the last release against a median gap of 330 (0.3x)
- Last firmware
- 25 June 2026 (3 months ago)
- Releases seen
- 5
- Update rhythm
- about every 11 months
- Support observed
- ≥5 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.
- RE205 v1 (US) Gone quiet 2 releases
- RE205 v2 (US) Gone quiet 6 releases
- RE205 v3 (US) Gone quiet 4 releases
- RE205 v3.6 (US) Gone quiet 1 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)_V4_1.0.50 Build 250821 25 June 2026
Release notes — disclosure 0.40
New Features/Enhancements: 1. Optimized EasyMesh wired backhaul performance. 2. Optimized the Auto Update feature. Bug Fixed: 1. Security and stability improvements.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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RE205(US)_V4_1.0.23 Build 230418 17 July 2023
Release notes — disclosure 0.49
Note: 1. Newly supported EasyMesh function; 2. Enhanced WiFi stability; 3. Fixed the bug that some IoT devices can't connect to 2.4G WiFi.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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RE205(US)_V4_1.0.12 Build 221019 7 February 2023
Release notes — disclosure 0.23
Note: 1. Optimized the system stability.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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RE205(US)_V4_1.0.11 Build 220805 14 October 2022
Release notes — disclosure 0.47
Note: 1. Cannot downgrade to the older version after upgrade to this new version; 2. Enhanced WiFi stability; 3. Newly support WPA3 security method; 4. Optimized the system stability.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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RE205(US)_V4_210408 1 June 2021
Release notes — disclosure 0.46
Modification and bug fixes: 1. Fixed the bug that related to WPS 2. Fixed the bug that the device will be unable to connect to the cloud server for some time after the LAN IP being changed 3. Fixed the bug that related to cloud account 4. Optimized total performance
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 30 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.