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RN516 finally EOL?
I thought the RN516 went EoL quite some time ago... but I had still be updating the firmware over the years and I still got antivirus definitions for it too. Back on September 29th, the antivirus definitions started failing daily. I haven't been able to find an announcement that this was going to stop so figured I'd come ask the community. Thanks in advance!
I thought the RN516 went EoL
The RN516 went EoL in 2017. Netgear exited the NAS business, and now all ReadyNAS platforms are now EoL.
While Netgear announced the end of firmware updates for NAS running 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 5.3.x when those updates ended, they did not announce end of firmware updates for OS-6. Personally I think that is a mistake - a NAS is very different product from a router or switch.
In any event, I expect that 6.10.10 will be the final firmware release.
Back on September 29th, the antivirus definitions started failing daily.
The version of ClamAV that Netgear distributed (0.103) became end-of-life in 2024. ClamAV began blocking definition updates to that version in September 2025.
- https://blog.clamav.net/2024/08/clamav-0103-lts-end-of-life-announcement.html
- https://docs.clamav.net/faq/faq-eol.html#version-support-matrix
Netgear built this package from ClamAV source, and they have told me that they have no plans to update it.
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I thought the RN516 went EoL
The RN516 went EoL in 2017. Netgear exited the NAS business, and now all ReadyNAS platforms are now EoL.
While Netgear announced the end of firmware updates for NAS running 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 5.3.x when those updates ended, they did not announce end of firmware updates for OS-6. Personally I think that is a mistake - a NAS is very different product from a router or switch.
In any event, I expect that 6.10.10 will be the final firmware release.
Back on September 29th, the antivirus definitions started failing daily.
The version of ClamAV that Netgear distributed (0.103) became end-of-life in 2024. ClamAV began blocking definition updates to that version in September 2025.
- https://blog.clamav.net/2024/08/clamav-0103-lts-end-of-life-announcement.html
- https://docs.clamav.net/faq/faq-eol.html#version-support-matrix
Netgear built this package from ClamAV source, and they have told me that they have no plans to update it.
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