TL-WR740N v5
Gone quiet reasonably evidenced
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
4220 days since the last release against a median gap of 34 (124.1x)
- Last firmware
- 12 March 2015 (12 years ago)
- Releases seen
- 4
- Update rhythm
- about every 34 days
- Support observed
- ≥5 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-WR740N v2 Gone quiet 1 releases
- TL-WR740N v3 Gone quiet 1 releases
- TL-WR740N v4 Gone quiet 9 releases
- TL-WR740N v5 (UN) Gone quiet 1 releases
- TL-WR740N v6 Gone quiet 1 releases
- TL-WR740N v6 (UN) Gone quiet 1 releases
Firmware history
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TL-WR740N_V5_150312 12 March 2015
Release notes — disclosure 0.44
Modifications and Bug Fixes: New Features/Enhancement： 1.Optimized the performance of Dynamic DNS function; Bug Fixed： 1.Fixed the directory traversal security bug; 2.Fixed the bug that Dyndns will display "succeed"even with the wrong username and password.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR740N_V5_141217 17 December 2014
Release notes — disclosure 0.34
Modifications and Bug Fixes: New Features/Enhancement： 1.Added the support of TP-LINK Tether v2.0 Bug Fixed： 1.Fixed a bug that can't respond the DHCP renewal packet normally in three adress WDS mode.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR740N_V5_141113 13 November 2014
Release notes — disclosure 0.53
Modifications and Bug Fixes: New Features/Enhancement： 1.Improved performance of the PPPOE module. 2.Improved the security mechanism. Bug Fixed： 1.Fixed a bug that when you had chosen the PPTP in the Quick setup ,the webpage would link to the L2TP webpage automatically. 2.Fixed a bug that when you had configured a wireless channel manually but it wouldn’t take affect after rebooting the router.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR740N_V5_141011 11 October 2014
Release notes — disclosure 0.06
Modifications and Bug Fixes: 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 TL-WR740N
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 30 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.