Further 'status' details of the various qt5 modules - The kf5.15 kde patches are in separate trees for each module, because most distros only built the necessary modules (and kde has a lot of things for e.g. in-car commercial use which are not appropriate in most linux distros, people using those probably need the paid-for Qt). For each module, clone it and change into the 5.15 branch: git clone https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/ # gives current 6.N cd git checkout -t origin/5.15 Get the patches from kde: git format-patch origin/5.15.2..origin/kde/5.15 When doing that the first time, some, or all the patches are 'not useful' because either they increase the version from 5.15.2 or they were already included in the 5.15.2 rleease. For a record of what I'm doing, I prefix each line of those with a '#'. If therr If you need to look at the current state of the files at kde, go to https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/ Current status of these patches: Initial 2021-12-29 or earlier 2022-01-25 (-kf5-1) (-kf5-2) qtbase was 262 now 294 qtdeclarative was 41 now 43 qtdoc was 15 still 15 qtgraphicaleffects was 2, not useful (still 2) qtimageformats was 3, not useful (still 3) qtlocation was 6 still 6 qtmultimedia was 3 still 3 qtnetworkauth was 2, not useful (still 2) qtquickcontrols2 was 8 now 10 qtquickcontrols was 3 still 3 qtscript was 4, not useful (still 4) qtsensors was 2, not useful (still 2) qtspeech was 2, not useful (still 2) qtsvg was 13 now 16 qttools was 17 still 17 qtwayland was 37 now 44 qtwebchannel was 2, not useful now 5 qtx11extras was 1, not useful (still 1) qtxmlpatterns was 2, not useful (still 2)