We are actively working on Watir 1.5 and have moved some of the project support resources to a new site: OpenQA.org. That's why things look abandoned here on Rubyforge. Don't despair! We've migrated our bug reports and other tracker information to a Jira-based system and have also moved the source repository. Please see http://www.openqa.org/watir/ and
http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Project+Home

We are still using Rubyforge for the mailing lists and will be releasing Watir 1.5 here when it is ready for release. Development builds can be found at OpenQA. For complete details on the transition see http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2006_07.html#000240