@vetsin Sorry misread that.
The NOTE 2 update is out, has been out for awhile (3 weeks?). But it's been pulled and I'm not sure if it's been re - pushed.

The 4.3 brings KNOX as far as I was told.
That's not a good a thing, but I'm sure it won't be as airtight as the KNOX feature on the NOTE 3 which came with this "feature" baked in. The new features from NOTE 3 will trickle down to the 2, but it won't be as good. Unfortunately Sammy only cares so much for outdated devices. The original NOTE probably will not get anymore updates (won't hit 4.3 and won't get new features).

For all that's curious KNOX is Sammy's equivalent of AEGIS on the Nokia N9. A pain in the ***, if you ask me. It's pretty much Sammy's "Flash Counter" but an updated model (harder to bypass, fool, trick).... I think the reason Sammy took this approach is not to piss devs off, but to try and get the device "Corporate Acceptable" like the abandoned BlackBerry or the default "iPhone" used by corporations and government officials (like Obama).