With new Jira view creating a new issue the option to assign to Epic Link is missing and can't be added. Because of this we're unable to create new defects because Epic Link is a required field and information needed.
We ran into this also and i raised a bug with atlassian about it. Workaround is to switch to the old layout when creating.
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