Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

What vendors do, not what they announce.

TP-Link

TL-SG105E v5

Actively updated reasonably evidenced

firmware is arriving about as often as it always has

356 days since the last release against a median gap of 962 (0.4x)

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Last firmware
9 October 2025 (12 months ago)
Releases seen
4
Update rhythm
about every 3 years
Support observed
≥6 years
Vendor's promise
28 July 2029 — kept so far
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. TL-SG105E(UN)_V5_1.0.0 Build 20250710 9 October 2025

    Release notes — disclosure 0.30
    Release Note >
  2. TL-SG105E(UN)_V5_1.0.0 Build 20230214 20 February 2023

    Release notes — disclosure 0.24
    New Features/Enhancements: 1. Upgraded the management protocol of Easy Smart switches to enhance security.
  3. TL-SG105E(UN)_V5_1.0.0 Build 20220930 12 October 2022

    Release notes — disclosure 0.24
    New Feature/Enhancement: 1. Optimized the presentation of the menu bar in the Web UI.
  4. TL-SG105E(UN)_V5_20191105 27 December 2019

    Release notes — disclosure 0.06
    Modifications and Bug Fixes: First firmware released.

Evidence

2 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 TL-SG105E

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

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