BuddyPress 1.9 was released earlier this week.
Please can the sub-projects on https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/ be updated?
- Make 1.6.x and 1.7.x non-active
- Create 1.9.x for the current release and make active
1.8 was never made and I don’t think it’s worth any time or effort to get the 1.8-era translations loaded, unless it’s super-trivial.