Atlassian has announced the release of version 3.7 Beta 2 of JIRA. "A lot of effort this release has been dedicated to developing Project Roles, which we hope will greatly reduce the headache of JIRA administration. Project Roles should greatly reduce the number of user groups, permission and notification schemes in the system. This feature should also place more power in the hands of a Project Administrator, rather than the Global JIRA Admin. To save you time, we have also worked hard on making the upgrade path from user groups to Project Roles as automated as possible. When playing with 3.7 Beta 2, please check out the Scheme Tools, and if possible see how they behave with your production data. We are especially looking for feedback in this area of JIRA."