@Hank21,

I return to my original question do TP-Link for Business publish release dates for SW updates for Devices and Controllers e.g. Switch, Router (Gateway), EAPs and SW,HW Controllers.

In many industries their is an expection on Suppliers to provide Roadmaps with release notes for their latest HW/FW and SW, as those industries have to plan off of the back of those dates in their production live networks, perhaps in turn satisfying their own customers.

It would be extremely useful if an indication of when the next updates for Device and Controller SW will be made available. I am sure an adequate disclaimer could be placed on the release so that if dates slip in GA code these are accepted by the user community to be non-binding.

For me it would be extremely helpful to have an idea of an expected month that SW may be anticipated, rather than logging in daily, weekly, monthly to check because the end users have no indication at all.

Many thanks in advance I look forward to your response to the question.

  @Hank21 Is there any update from your query please? Myself, @TandS and @MayhemHack all have similar asks around features awaiting ER605v2 FW.

I also have another post in the EAP forum regarding EAP225 v5 performance and FW update requests.

https://community.tp-link.com/en/business/forum/topic/590128?replyId=1159968

Omada Hardware Controller_V5.7.6 has now released and again it states EAP FW updates are needed to benefit from features available in the latest controller release. That is now two releases of controller where Device FW Updates are called upon to gain the benefit of the Omada Controller features unlocked. It would be incredibly helpful to have a schedule so that customer expectations can be managed.

Is it possible to get some update please? Many thanks in advance.

@Hank21 Do you have any updates?

Looking at the release notes for the latest SW Omada Controller release v5.8.4 it again lists a number of new features to be unlocked by Device FW upgrades. This time however the following disclaimer was added.

"10. Added support for the following features to Omada Gateway, which requires firmware updates to be released later. Some Omada Gateway models may not support all features, details will be listed in the release notes of new firmware."

This I am afraid is a bit of an open ended statement. I have since upgrading from v5.6.4 - v5.7.4 and pending v5.8.4 HW release seen only an upgrade for my SG2008P v3 FW that just fixed memory.

TL-SG2008P(UN)_V3.6_3.0.4 Build 20221130

Bug Fixed:
1. Fixed the bug of slowly increasing memory usage.

Notes:
1. For TL-SG2008P(UN) V3 and V3.6
2. This firmware is fully adapted to Omada SDN Controller v5.6 and above.

Whereas in the same timeline the SG2210MP has had the below release plus Bug fix post, that details features unlocked.

New Features & Enhancements:
Fully adapted to Omada Controller v5.6, with the following features supported:
1. Jumbo Frame;
2. EEE;
3. Flow Control (802.3x);
4. Loopback Detection VLAN-Based;
5. LACP (802.3ad);
6. DHCP L2 Relay;
7. Time-Based ACL;
8. MAC address format customization for 802.1X.

Bug Fixed:
1. Fixed the bug that frequent topology changes of MSTP may cause the switch to crash.
2. Improved the performance of Ingress Bandwidth Control.

Notes:
1. For TL-SG2210MP(UN) V3 and V3.6
2. This firmware is fully adapted to Omada SDN Controller v5.6 and above.

As I have said before a roadmap with future releases even a matrix of Omada features supported per device would help your customers.

I have read that only Omada Controller and Gateways show there updates when posted in this forum for Switches and EAPs you need to rely on the Device Support pages as and when dropped.

Based on the latest Omada comment above.... "Some Omada Gateway models may not support all features, details will be listed in the release notes of new firmware." I am left indefinitely guessing whether my devices ER605v2, SG2008Pv3 and EAP225v4 & v5 will or won't be compatible with the new firmware. I am left to guess when the next FW release will or will not drop and then if my device will or will not get an update to the FW making it compatible or not.

It would be so much easier if the pending releases were known for each device and whether they will or will not stay in lock step with the Omada Controller functionality or not.

Perhaps the Omada Controller release notes could include a matrix of Device feature support? Perhaps you could state whether the current FW for the device/version supports the functionality and if not the pending FW release that will or whether the Device HW variant will not support.

  @Hank21 & @Fae many thanks. Can you please keep this thread posted on your developers response please? Also do you have a timescale for "very soon", is it days, weeks, months? There many posts across all of the device type forums asking about ER605 variants latest firmware release date, it would be nice to get a better indicator if you can please? Many thanks.