We have Jira automation for several recurring tasks. The API to create an issue was working and able to set the assignee. But the recent tickets are creating with Unassigned.
Python library is used for creating the issue. https://jira.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
key set on creating an issue
assignee={name: <user name> }
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