After a lot of discussions, testing, trials, errors, patching and more testing, we have worked out the next phases of our KDE EPEL Roadmap.
As a reminder, we are trying to do updates just once a year, corresponding with minor RHEL releases. This gives us the stability that Enterprise users expect, but with updates that will allow us to keep up with security / bugs / features.
Current Versions: RHEL 8.6: Plasma 5.23.3 - kf5 5.88 - qt 5.15.2 RHEL 9.0: Plasma 5.23.5 - kf5 5.90 - qt 5.15.2
Next Versions: RHEL 8.7: Plasma 5.24.6 - kf5 5.96 - qt 5.15.3 RHEL 9.1: Plasma 5.24.6 - kf5 5.96 - qt 5.15.3
CentOS Stream 9 - The update to these new versions is currently in epel-next-testing. It should be in stable early next week. CentOS Stream 8 - The update to these new versions should be in epel-next-testing next week. It should be in stable in two weeks.
For RHEL 8 this will probably be the last major update for Plasma. It will continue to stay on 5.24, which is an LTS release. The libraries in RHEL 8 are just too old for the newer Plasma's.
Troy Dawson