Service Pack 2 for WSS and MOSS

Microsoft has announced release of this service pack, and it will be available on 28th Apr 2009. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms. SP2 provides the groundwork for future major releases of SharePoint Products and Technologies.
· An STSADM command line that scans your server farm to establish whether it is ready for upgrade to the next version of SharePoint and provides feedback and best practice recommendations on your current environment.
· SP2 offers support for standards-based documents formats and compatibility with a broader range of Web browsers.
· Substantial improvements to Forms-based authentication.
· Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server R2 will be supported on their release.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
· The performance and stability of content deployment and variations feature has been improved.
· A new tool has been added to the STSADM command-line utility that enables a SharePoint administrator to scan sites that use the variations feature for errors.
Excel Services
· SP2 makes it easier to configure Excel Web Access Web Parts on new sites.
· Several rendering, calculation, and security issues have been resolved.
· Some display issues have been addressed.
· Improved compatibility with Mozilla Firefox browsers.