Version 4.12.1 of User Role Editor Pro is available for download.
This version is the technical update to fix the issue with the automatic updates API link. This link should start from https://www.role-editor.com instead of https://role-editor.com
This is related to migration of role-editor.com site to the Google App Engine platform, which does not support SSL for the naked custom domains and requires to use SSL secured links with www subdomain, e.g. https://www.role-editor.com in our case. Starting from version 4.12.1 automatic update for User Role Editor Pro is returned to the working state.
In order to fix the issue for earlier installed version 4.12, You may replace manually the user-role-editor-pro.php file with the file from version 4.12.1 installation package. Or just add www. to the update link at line #64 via text editor. It should look this way:

    $ure_update_checker = new PluginUpdateChecker(
      'https://www.role-editor.com/update?action=get_metadata&slug=user-role-editor-pro',
      __FILE__
    );

Automatic updates are temporary unavailable for User Role Editor Pro via role-editor.com. My apologies for any inconvenience it may bring to you. I hope that this issue will be resolved in short period of time, at begin of July, 2014.
You still may download the latest version of User Role Editor Pro from this link (login to the site 1st) and replace files manually via FTP. Read more Automatic updates are temporally unavailable ›

Some times you ask me:
– How to update User Role Editor Pro version?
The answer is simple. You may update currently installed older version of User Role Editor Pro to the newer one exactly the same way how you make it for any other free plugin from WordPress official repository.
Read more Update User Role Editor Pro version – How to ›

User Role Editor Pro version 4.12 was published at April, 22nd, 2014. The updates include:

• Use new “Admin Menu” button to block selected admin menu items for role (more details…).
• Posts/Pages edit restriction feature does not prohibit to add new post/page now. It should be managed via ‘create_posts’ or ‘create_pages’ user capabilities.
• If you use Posts/Pages edit restriction by author IDs, there is no need to add user ID to allow him edit his own posts or page. Current user is added to the allowed authors list automatically.
• New tab “Additional Modules” was added to the User Role Editor options page. As per name all options related to additional modules were moved there.
• Bug was fixed. It had prevented bulk move users without role (–No role for this site–) to the selected role in case such users were shown more than at one WordPress Users page.

Block WordPress admin menu items which offer extended functionality unneeded to current user – it’s possible with the help of User Role Editor Pro additional module. WordPress manages access to its administrator menu items by user capabilities. For example to use “Appearance” menu user should have ‘edit_theme_options’ or ‘switch_themes’ capabilities, to access “Settings” menu – ‘manage_options’ capability. You may manage this access with “User Role Editor” adding/removing capabilities to/from the roles or working directly with users. But what to do if you need to allow to user access to “Menus” item of “Appearance” submenu, but do not give him access to the “Widgets” from the same submenu? We can not do it via user capabilities as both menu items are managed by the same “edit_theme_options” user capability. Read more Block WordPress Admin Menu Items ›