Myself as well as a few other rangers have already encountered this. Pets running back on top of you without resurrecting… still. Even with said patch notes:
“Pet-revive skills no longer fail to heal their target.”
To be clear, my personal experience is with the downed skill. However others have also stated search and rescue is also affected.
“Significant ranger improvements coming in the next patch. "-Jon Peters, Nov. 2012…