You can use the promote button on a modern page to promote a current page and make it news.

Thanks for your feedback! We’re happy to report that your suggestion is available. Documentation can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/features/site-footer

Rolled out to 100% of production on 3/15/20

We’ve enabled custom metadata on pages and news in Sites last year and forgot to mark this complete.

See the blog about it here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Structure-your-intranet-page-metadata-coming-to-SharePoint-in/ba-p/212555

If you have additional asks, like the commentor asking for AND/OR control in news filtering, please search and find a suggestion to vote for, or open a new once.

Hello! Push notifications to the SP mobile app for comments and replies on modern pages and news posts is in prod.

Emails for comment and replies on pages and news posts are rolling out.

Please see this tech community post for details: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/April-2019-Updates-to-SharePoint-News/ba-p/481718

Please see Multilingual publishing feature announcement here : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/new-sharepoint-feature-multilingual-publishing-for-pages-and/ba-p/1432445

You can now enable communication site experience at the classic root site with http://spo.ms/enablecommsite or swap a new communication site to the root with http://aka.ms/siteswap

We’re rolled out audience targeting on pages and news posts, and allow targeting content in the news and highlighted content web parts. You can also soon target links in quick links (see the product roadmap for dates).

If you have specific web parts you’d like to see add audience targeting capabilities, please create an individual request for each part.

Thank you!

Page templates are now rolled out to 100% WW and you can create your own templates per site. If you have more or different needs, please open a new item and give us some specifics so we can ensure we build what you need. Thanks!

If the RSS feed generates an iFrame, you should be able to use the embed we part. Also on team sites, you can use the RSS connector – search for RSS in the web part toolbox in pages on your team site.

If this doesn’t meet your scenario needs, can you open a new item with my specifics of the gaps?

check out the new Hub News layout for the news webpart, https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-the-News-web-part-on-a-SharePoint-page-C2DCEE50-F5D7-434B-8CB9-A7FEEFD9F165.

A number of theming updates have been rolled out this year – and the branding updates we shared at Ignite 2018 will be rolling out to Targeted Release later this month. We’re going to resolve this suggestion and ask that you create new suggestion(s) for specific branding settings/asks. Thank you!

This was released quite some time ago; sorry for missing this user voice request. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/use-the-highlighted-content-web-part-e34199b0-ff1a-47fb-8f4d-dbcaed329efd#bkmk_filtersort

The site settings link is now in the gear dropdown on any modern page.

We have a list web part available for use on modern pages. We’re continuing to improve it over time with requested capabilities.

There are two requests in this one item. Based on the title, I’m going to mark this done with our work to add four layouts to the title area. One of these layouts is called “Plain” and shows only one line of page title, with no image.

Many of the comments are asking for another great feature, not related to the page title area, but rather the site header. We’re also working on allowing options to resize this area. We’ve added a “compact view” for the site header, and have plans for an even more minimized view. If this feature is what you’d like to upvote, please add a new UserVoice request.

We’ve rolled out the large toolbox to First Release users this week. AppParts (components of add-ins) show up in the Other section, while other modern web parts are categorized. All of these tools are of course easily accessible via search.

Thanks!

We shipped this capability in March of this year; sorry for the late update to this great suggestion.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-News-Enhancements-March-2019/ba-p/366585

We added an ability to pick a smaller layout, or choose cards. You also have the option to show an icon or image, or just the text.