Tapo S500 v2.6
Gone quiet thin evidence
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
951 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against
- Last firmware
- 21 February 2024 (3 years ago)
- Releases seen
- 1
- Update rhythm
- too few releases to model
- Support observed
- —
- 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.
- Tapo S500 v1.2 (US) Actively updated 3 releases
- Tapo S500 v1.26 (US) Not enough evidence 2 releases
Firmware history
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Tapo S500(US)_V2.6_1.2.0 Build 230906 21 February 2024
Release notes — disclosure 0.30
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 Tapo S500
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.