User blog comment:LOTRMod/Why hasn't the mod updated to 1.8 yet?/@comment-25612015-20150710174159/@comment-26576826-20150711162042

1.8 isn't really an update oriented in adding a BIG thing to vanilla minecraft. It's just a patchwork of new stuff that aren't very exciting. Also btw most bukkit and cauldron plugins barely even made it through the 1.6.4 to 1.7 transition, it took a while to make beta versions for them, and right now I have no idea whether or not the developers finally finished a stable version of 1.7.10 plugins.