Autocomplete release date?

Autocomplete release date?


Hi
Does anyone have an estimated time-scale for the release of
autocomplete? I can see it is in the development area and the last
comment I found on this discussion board said it would be in 1.7, it
is not.
I am still using old versions of jQuery and the UI, as I can't upgrade
until autocomplete is available (it is used throughout our app). I am
having problems with bugs in UI in the older version, such as
connectToSortable not working in my version of draggable, which is why
I want to upgrade to the latest version of jQuery.
Is there a beta of the new autocomplete I could test?
Cheers
Jared