Automatically assign new items to a release

We have the situation where we use a single Jira project to manage a number of small software projects. By using the Component value we can automatically assign the job raised to the component lead. What we would also like to do is to automatically assign the job to a specific release. In most of our projects we create a Pending release that all new work is placed in, in this particular project we have one Pending release per piece of software that is managed by the project. When someone raises a job for say the notification utility, it would be great to have the job automatically assigned to the notification pending release. This way we don't have all the work being put into the standard unsheduled place holder and the component lead doesn't have to do it all the time.