Interesting write up over on the ConfigMgr Team Blog

Up until now we have released support announcements on the ConfigMgr Support Team blog from our very own Customer Support Services.  Moving forward, we will be announcing support for new configuration via our Configuration Manager Team blog directly from our finger tips to your eyes.  While we are on the topic, you might be wondering what to expect from our team when new versions of our dependencies release.  First, let's establish some terminology.  We consider our ‘externals' anything that our product is dependent on (or specific features are dependent on) that is not developed by our own development teams.  We have dependencies on platforms like Windows or SQL, or components like .NET Framework or the Bandwidth Intelligent Throttling Service (BITS).  We currently track over 26 external dependencies against our product.

Each time a new version of an external is going to release, our team assesses whether or not we will offer support for this new external.  Often this will involve some ‘scout' testing, some sanity check to see if there are any [Read more] 

Read the complete post at http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/r0b/archive/2009/12/08/configuration-manager-support-announcements-for-november-2009.aspx