What happened to QT 5.8.x in the http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt5/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ repository?
Did I miss an announcement that it is no longer available?
Thank You for the link.
The story in short:
It was not possible to submit Qt 5.8 to Tumbleweed because of a grave bug that broke Plasma on Wayland completely.
And the Qt developers even decided to not do a 5.8.1 bug fix release either.
But now it became necessary (and urgent) to submit a few fixes to Tumbleweed, so Qt had to be reverted to 5.7.1 to be able to do that (KDE:Qt5 is the devel project for Tumbleweed, submissions are only accepted from there).
5.9 is going to be released very soon though, and will be available in KDE:Qt5 AFAIK.
Let’s hope that release is “better”…
Qt 5.9 has already been released.
Does it mean that we can expect it to be used in Leap 42.2 or Tumbleweed any moment? (I’m especially interested in Tumbleweed)
Qt 5.9.0 is in the KDE:Qt5 repo since a week already, also for 42.2.
But no, it will never be used in Leap 42.2. Leap 42.2 comes with 5.6.1 and that won’t change, it may only get critical bugfix or security updates.
And 42.3 will also stay with 5.6 (5.6.2 though), which is an LTS release.
You can use 5.9 on Leap by adding that repo, but you’d need to upgrade other things as well (especially if you are using the KDE desktop or applications).
For Tumbleweed, Qt 5.9.0 has been submitted, but it needs to go through the usual review/staging/testing process which may take a while.