Recently released, see the changelog here: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
+*hdf5-1.8.8 (17 Nov 2011) + + 17 Nov 2011; Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org> + +files/hdf5-1.8.8-buildsystem.patch, +hdf5-1.8.8.ebuild, metadata.xml: + Version bump wrt #390811 by Tolga Dalman, fixes bug #383843 by Cedric It still needs polishing up, i.e. there's a lot QA warnings (damn implicits) and some tests fail. I'll slowly work it up, otherwise it's in perfectly good shape to use. Please welcome f2003 goodies ;)
Kacper, thanks a lot for being so quick :)