User blog comment:LOTRMod/Why hasn't the mod updated to 1.8 yet?/@comment-26898492-20160402031455/@comment-28051226-20160417180928

I'm not sure if you read the article, but updating to 1.9 is HUGE work, becuase, again he(Mevans) has to also update through 1.8. Mevans does have other things to do you know, not just sit there at our beck and call to update the mod to whatever we want.