Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

What vendors do, not what they announce.

TP-Link

Tapo C100 v4.2

Gone quiet thin evidence

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

1030 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 December 2023 (3 years ago)
Releases seen
1
Update rhythm
too few releases to model
Support observed
—
Vendor's promise
≥ 31 December 2029 — at least, and may be extended — not being kept: silent well before this date
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. Tapo C100(US)_V4.20_1.3.4 Build 230613 5 December 2023

    Release notes — disclosure 0.30
    First firmware released.

Evidence

3 archived pages sit behind this record, the earliest read on 1 August 2026. Everything above was read from them, and each is kept byte for byte so it can be checked after the vendor edits the original.

Identifiers: marketing_name Tapo C100

Judged by lifecycle-1 on 30 September 2026. How these verdicts are computed.

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