TL-WR902AC v3
Slowing down well evidenced
updates are coming less often than this product's own history
618 days since the last release against a median gap of 663 (0.9x) — but a year without firmware is not active whatever the cadence
- Last firmware
- 20 January 2025 (2 years ago)
- Releases seen
- 6
- Update rhythm
- about every 2 years
- Support observed
- ≥7 years
- Vendor's promise
- ≥ 31 December 2029 — at least, and may be extended — 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.
- TL-WR902AC v1 (US) Gone quiet 2 releases
- TL-WR902AC v3.6 (US) Gone quiet 4 releases
- TL-WR902AC v3.8 (US) Gone quiet 6 releases
- TL-WR902AC v4 (US) Actively updated 4 releases
- TL-WR902AC v4.4 (US) Not enough evidence 1 releases
- TL-WR902AC v4.46 (US) Not enough evidence 2 releases
- TL-WR902AC v4.6 (US) Not enough evidence 2 releases
Firmware history
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TL-WR902AC(US)_V3_241231 20 January 2025
Release notes — disclosure 0.30
Enhance device security.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR902AC(US)_V3_240712 15 July 2024
Release notes — disclosure 0.30
Enhance device security.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR902AC(US)_V3_0.9.1 Build 220329 11 July 2022
Release notes — disclosure 0.06
Modifications and Bug Fixes: Optimized total performance.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR902AC(US)_V3_191209 19 January 2020
Release notes — disclosure 0.40
New Features/Enhancements: 1. Added 3/4G Mode. 2. Supported SMB V2.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR902AC(US)_V3_171229 27 March 2018
Release notes — disclosure 0.40
Modification and Bug Fixes: 1. Fixed WPA2 (KRACKs) vulnerability. 2. Other bugs fixed.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR902AC(US)_V3_170826 26 August 2017
Release notes — disclosure 0.06
Modifications and Bug Fixes: First firmware released.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
Evidence
3 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-WR902AC · openwrt_id tplink_tl-wr902ac-v3
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 30 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.