GSS 3.0 - What's The Status of the Return of the Old Virtual Partition From GSS 2.5?

Inquiring as the status of the old "virtual partition" used in GSS 2.5 deployment of images.

We're a college campus with over 8000 PCs (W7 x64 Enterprise).  We've been using GSS 2+ since it came out which meets our needs satisfactorily.  We're soon to begin using newer hardware in our computer lab environments which is going to make imaging harder due to the need for Vista drivers, though there are Symantec workarounds for getting WinPE 5 to work with GSS 2.5.

Since the "Beta Release" of GSS 3.0, it has been promised that the older "virtual partition" from GSS 2.5 would be upcoming.  The current "Automation Partition" doesn't work for us.

Any update would be greatly appreciated!