image required="true" Bug!?

I'm using Perch: 3.1.5, PHP: 7.1.30,

When setting an image with required="true" I've notice that the image field ignores the "required" status and saves with no image. Is this a bug?

...this is very worrying if you can't specify that an image must be required. Help!

Checking previous sites it appears that the required="true" does work on type="image" 

Can anyone confirm this is true?

Thanks for confirming Drew.

This would explain some editors getting in a pickle on sites with listing where an image is the key content. Editors (especially beginners) leap in to create content before they've gathered the relevant material like the key image!

I generally would create a fallback image for these sites but of course there's no feedback in the Editor that this is happening.

There is a case where stopping publishing where an image is required would help.