TL-WA850RE v5
Gone quiet thin evidence
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
2875 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against
- Last firmware
- 15 November 2018 (8 years ago)
- Releases seen
- 2
- Update rhythm
- too few releases to model
- Support observed
- ≥8 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.
- TL-WA850RE v1.2 Gone quiet 1 releases
- TL-WA850RE v2 Gone quiet 1 releases
- TL-WA850RE v2 (US) Gone quiet 5 releases
- TL-WA850RE v3 Gone quiet 1 releases
- TL-WA850RE v4 (US) Gone quiet 4 releases
- TL-WA850RE v6 (US) Gone quiet 5 releases
- TL-WA850RE v7 (US) Gone quiet 4 releases
Firmware history
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TL-WA850RE(US)_V5_181107 15 November 2018
Release notes — disclosure 0.46
Modifications and Bug Fixes 1. Optimized the way to access the extender's web management page via tplinkrepeater.net or www.tplinkrepeater.net 2. Improved the wireless connection stability with back-end client. 3. Improved the wireless connection stability with front-end AP. 4. Improved the system stability. 5. Fixed the connection compatibility issue with a few specific routers.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WA850RE(US)_V5_180228 30 March 2018
Release notes — disclosure 0.32
Modifications and Bug Fixes Fixed the compatibility issue with some old versions of MacBook.
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 TL-WA850RE
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.