TL-WA850RE v7
Gone quiet reasonably evidenced
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
694 days since the last release against a median gap of 117 (5.9x)
- Last firmware
- 4 November 2024 (2 years ago)
- Releases seen
- 4
- Update rhythm
- about every 4 months
- Support observed
- ≥5 years
- 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.
- 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 v5 (US) Gone quiet 2 releases
- TL-WA850RE v6 (US) Gone quiet 5 releases
Firmware history
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TL-WA850RE(US)_V7_1.0.13 Build 231115 4 November 2024
Release notes — disclosure 0.49
Note: 1. Fixed the bug that clients can not access the Internet in some cases; 2. Fixed the bug that some IoT devices can't connect to 2.4G WiFi.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WA850RE(US)_V7_200923 19 October 2020
Release notes — disclosure 0.35
Modifications and Bug Fixes: 1. Improved the stability and performance of the device. 2. Fixed some bugs
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WA850RE(US)_V7_200731 17 August 2020
Release notes — disclosure 0.53
Modification and bug fixes: 1. Fixed the bug that some devices cannot access Internet in some situations. 2. Fixed the bug that some main router may restart when the repeater connects to it. 3. Fixed the bug of having difficulty in connecting to hidden SSID. 4. Fixed the security issue of logging in to the web UI causes a reset of the device. 5. Optimized total performance.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WA850RE(US)_V7_200403 22 April 2020
Release notes — disclosure 0.11
Modifications and Bug Fixes: 1. Improve the stability of device.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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-WA850RE
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.