MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2 has been officially announced

Microsoft preparing for the release of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2.

The Expected release will be something between February and April 2009

Here are some of the expected highlights for the SharePoint Area provided by the SharePoint Technical Product Managers:

• Improved Read-only Content Databases
  Whenever a content database is marked read-only, all of the site collections in that database are automatically marked as read-only.
• ECM Performance and Manageability Improvements
  Improved performance and manageability in variations, including STSADM commands for repairing links between source and target pages.
• Improved Index Rebuild Timer Jobs
  SharePoint content databases running in SQL Server 2005 will undergo an automatic index rebuild, which helps stop defragmentation, and stop the database from degrading in performance.
• Upgrade Checker
  This will scan your SharePoint farm in advance of applying SP2 and will provide feedback on the environments readiness to upgrade.

Information for customers who have not yet applied Service Pack 1: Based on the support lifecycle page support for systems without Service Pack 1 will end on January 13th 2009.