Should it be the Manage sprints permission now?
In 7.x, yes you are right, that should be sufficient. Problem with atlassians documentation however is that they NEVER state which versions a DOC is intended for, so in average (throughout versions) it's still more common that you need to be a project admin. They could work on this i guess.
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