Atlassian has announced the release of JIRA 3.7. "As mentioned in the announcement of the beta release, a lot of effort in JIRA 3.7 has been dedicated to developing Project Roles, which we hope will greatly simplify the task 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."