Sorry for repost of this article from well known person (RiceHigh), but sometimes he knows news that are about to hit us.
Link to his blog
If you don`t want to ramp up his blog hits, here is the complete news he posted:
http://bbs.kakaku.com/bbs/K0000152653/SortID=13971212/ Google translate
This is quoted from a shop who claimed to learn from a Pentax staff. And yes, K-5 has been discontinued and now it will still be available until the existing stocks run out.
Some people would then deny this rumour straight-forwardly by the logic that "There is not yet any replacement model announced that will come!" But the same thing did already happen for the K-r. So, it is actually possible!
But, if it is true, WHAT body would now be still stay in the current Pentax K *lineup*? Will there be only lenses?! :-o
For these days, I just wonder what Ricoh are doing on Pentax, really.. >:-(