Maintaining 2 template versions (and checking out the ND8 template of course) takes a lot of time, and well to be frank, I have to make a living too ;-).
But feel free to either cutover the 6.5.6 library's to 1.7b or cutover all openntf stuff to the vanilla 6.5.6 template.
I will be happy to put it on this site.
Vince