Most everyone is in the same boat. I wish he did not intentionally limit it by iOS version number. I think he prefers to play it safe and disable it on unknown iOS versions to keep it from potentially crashing. If he were more active in the JB scene, I might agree with that but, in this case, updating the iOS version number is the only thing it needs to make it work on iOS 8.1.1.i have numerous status bar tweaks which rely on his dependency tweak.
And now, people might have to wait potentially weeks...months even, for him to show up again and update it.