TL-WR940N v5
Gone quiet well evidenced
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
1404 days since the last release against a median gap of 328 (4.3x)
- Last firmware
- 25 November 2022 (4 years ago)
- Releases seen
- 6
- Update rhythm
- about every 11 months
- Support observed
- ≥6 years
- 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-WR940N v1 Gone quiet 2 releases
- TL-WR940N v2 Gone quiet 4 releases
- TL-WR940N v3 Gone quiet 2 releases
- TL-WR940N v3 (US) Gone quiet 2 releases
- TL-WR940N v4 (US) Gone quiet 1 releases
- TL-WR940N v6 (US) Actively updated 8 releases
- TL-WR940N v6.6 (US) Actively updated 3 releases
Firmware history
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TL-WR940N(US)_V5_3.20.1 Build 220801 25 November 2022
Release notes — disclosure 0.55
Modifications and Bug Fixes: 1. Improve device security; 2. Update the ISP IPTV profile; 3. Fixed the bug that when the PPPoEv6 was enabled, then the device IPv4 could not obtain IP and the button can't use after the prototype was restarted; 4. Fixed the bug that the field carried by PPPoE dial-up lacks the service name, resulting in dial-up failure.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR940N(US)_V5_220610 10 June 2022
Release notes — disclosure 0.31
Release note: Modifications and Bug Fixes: Enhance device security.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR940N(US)_V5_211111 17 January 2022
Release notes — disclosure 0.42
Modifications and Bug Fixes: 1. Optimized the wireless stability on RE/WISP/Client mode. 2. Enhance wireless stability. 3. Fixed the bug that when you choose the NO-IP of the DDNS, the logout button can't take affect.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR940N(US)_V5_200316 26 April 2020
Cites CVE-2020-8597
Release notes — disclosure 0.84
New Features/Enhancement: 1. Optimized the wireless stability on RE mode. 2. Added the support for https. 3. Added support for reboot schedule. 4. Optimized the security and change the login mode. Bug Fixes: 1. Fixed CVE-2020-8597. 2. Fixed CVE-2020-8423_84_V10.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR940N(US)_V5_170912 12 September 2017
Release notes — disclosure 0.43
Modifications and Bug Fixes: New Features/Enhancement: 1. Improved the system's security. 2. Added ISP config IPTV. Bug Fixes: Fixed the bug about IPv6.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WR940N(US)_V5_161019 19 October 2016
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-WR940N
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.