in all honesty, there are thousands of requests (look at the size of the suggestions forum), demanding it in at a specific version is a low blow (directly at all of the other feature requests); especially since when development of that version starts the feature set is ultimately locked down...
I will agree, great feature suggestion, would love to have it, however there are quite a lot of requests/demands already on the plate so it honestly depends on popularity and the level of difficulty to build the options (and if Ian, SirDude, or Rick decide "hey, that sounds mighty fine, I'll do it!")
however, if you're interested in modifying your forums, you could head on over to UBBDev and request a modification; you'd have a better chance of getting that up and running in the short-term vs waiting on "core code".
