[Question/Suggestion] When will Vanish API come?

I'd hate to be impatient, but I'd like to ask, when will the Vanish API come out? I saw a thread on this back on February 9, 2012 and I'm using the recent Bukkit snapshot and don't see it implemented.

I need it for making my moderation plugin for my server, so if Bukkit could implement that soon, I'd love to do anything for Bukkit. It may raise the amount of vanishing plugins, but few servers will have their own Vanish command and utility.

Think of all the wacky things developers could do with this.

[Suggestion]
I also want to know if the developer plan on adding a method that checks if a player is vanished, another one would be to vanish from all but itself, and so on. Is it coming as well along with the vanish one?

 

It's already here.

player.hidePlayer(Player p)
player.showPlayer(Player p)
player.canSee(Player p)

 

Been around for quite a while already! VanishNoPacket (of course) has been using for about a month

 

Damn it, I didn't see that in the list of methods.