Snaiper

Thank you.

That is simply untrue. A lot of major bugs have been fixed and some major changes have been introduced in the following 1.8.x releases. http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Version_history#1.8 A lot has changed, which you can see by clicking on each individual update. I've been using Forge for a long time; Forge has pushed out all other mod loaders, so there is no alternative but to wait, which is extremely aggravating.

A lot of essential fixes have come down the 1.8.x line... but Forge just seems to stick to 1.8 and that is causing issues. Now, is there a way to make Forge work with Minecraft 1.8.7 through manual setup? Though, I believe you should make it work with Minecraft 1.8.7 natively. The example may be something that has just happened: there was an issue where Villagers would not detect item names, and it was fixes somewhere down the 1.8.x line... the issue is that to use Villagers properly I need 1.8.7, and Forge only comes in 1.8 package which features that bug.