Tethered Shooting with Nikon D7000 - when?

I was quite surprised (as, it seems, have others) to discover that tethered shooting is not yet supported with the Nikon D7000 in the latest Lightroom 3.3 release.
Has Adobe made any statements regarding the availability of this feature?
Does anyone know of any workarounds for the Mac, other than the ridiculously overpriced Nikon Capture?

I keep shaking the magic 8-ball, and all that keeps coming up is:
"Answer uncertain. Ask again later."
Strangely non-random results, too.
There is at least one free reverse engineered camera control wedge for Nikon cameras on OS X. It worked well enough to drop photos in a watched folder for me. It may have improved somewhat since. If I can find the link I'll pass it on, but I recall I just found it via a web search.
[Later]
A quick search led me to http://www.sofortbildapp.com/ and http://stefan.hafeneger.name/blog/category/sofortbild/
Works with auto import.

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