Deco X50 V1.2 hardware abandoned? No firmware update in 14+ months while V1.0 and V1.3 are actively updated
I have a Deco mesh setup with a Deco X50-4G V2 (main node) and 3x Deco X50 V1.2 satellites, all running the latest available firmware. While researching why I can't manually select WiFi channels, I noticed a significant discrepancy in TP-Link's firmware tracks:
| Hardware | Latest firmware | Date |
|-------------------|-----------------------|--------------------------|
| X50 V1.0 / V1.6 | 1.8.0 (+ 1.10.0 beta) | Dec 2025 |
| X50 V1.30 / V1.33 | 1.8.2 beta | Apr 2026 |
| X50 V1.2 | 1.4.5 | Sep 2024 — nothing since |
| X50 V3 | 1.5.0 | Aug 2025 |
V1.0 and V1.30 both received firmware 1.8.0 which introduced manual WiFi channel selection — a highly requested feature. V1.2 is stuck on 1.4.5 with no announcement, no roadmap, no community thread from TP-Link.
I checked TP-Link's official EOL List for Home Networking (V7.1, updated April 13, 2026). Deco X50 V1.2 is not listed as EOL. According to TP-Link's own policy, End of Maintenance follows ~3 years after End Of Sales. So either:
-V1.2 is still officially supported and updates are coming (when?)
-Or it's been quietly dropped without an official EOL notice, which contradicts TP-Link's own policy
V1.2 seems to be a transitional hardware revision sold between V1.0 and V1.3, which may explain why it falls through the cracks — but it's still actively deployed hardware.
Questions for the community
- Is V1.2 officially end-of-life?
- Will it receive the 1.8.x firmware with channel selection?
- If not, what's the migration path for customers still running V1.2?
Channel 44 (5GHz) has 17+ competing networks in my area. Without manual channel selection, there's no way to fix this. Automatic Network "Optimization" is inefficient. Happy to test beta firmware if TP-Link wants to extend the rollout.