WThieves Mods

Is there ever going to be a release on 1.8? I just updated to it but had to give up these mods. 

It is still going to take a long while for a decent RoadWorks prototype of 1.8 to come out.
1.8 created a lot of problems which need to be solved first, my biggest concern at the moment is compatibility between versions.
I want my downloaders to be able to load up a 1.7 world in 1.8, and just have it the way it used to be, but since 1.8 changed the block system so much it's very difficult to achieve that.