Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-86.132.115.181-20151011073427/@comment-25118285-20190504161105

There’s plenty of reasons why they’d want it on 1.8, but there’s no reason why we should actually spend time making an outdated version. We’re on 1.12 now, and we aren’t going backwards. Our updates take too long already, so we aren’t going to waste time working on an even more outdated version.