Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

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TP-Link

TL-WR940N v1

Gone quiet thin evidence

no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record

5735 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against

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Last firmware
17 January 2011 (16 years ago)
Releases seen
2
Update rhythm
too few releases to model
Support observed
≥9 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.

Firmware history

  1. TL-WR940N_V1_110117 17 January 2011

    Release notes — disclosure 0.40
    Modifications and Bug Fixes: Improve the PPTP/L2TP perfermance;Improve the perfermance of VPN Passthrough;Add the support of IGMP;Add support to DHCP Option 249;Add the support of RTSP;Add the support that the WAN IP and Gateway can be in different subnet;Add the virtual server port transfer in second connection;Fix the problem that the UPNP items disappear 12 hours later;Fix the problem about the DDNS logon in Singapore;Fix a backup & restore problem;Standard the rule of adding static route;Some web page display modifications.
  2. TL-WR940N_V1_100408 8 April 2010

    Release notes — disclosure 0.32
    Modifications and Bug Fixes: Add Dual Access function.Improve L2TP performance.Display WDS status.

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-WR940N

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

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