Further Ultrapack development?

[Dark-Star]

As part of coming back to IL-2, I looked to see if Ultrapack had gotten any further than version 3.0, only to find the forums dead as a doornail. Thankfully their downloads page still works and I am in the long process of reinstalling IL2 from my 2-CD set, patching it all the way to 4.13, and then putting in my old combination of HSFX + UP. (and with my lousy cheap Internet connection it's gonna take awhile!)

I can't even register at the UP forums to comment, so things there must REALLY be dead. Looking at the most recent post dates the only thing I can conclude is that within a few months everybody just...up and left. So does anyone here know what happened to the UP community? Will there be any more progress on the beloved Ultrapack?