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These are features that you would most like to see included in future releases of Backdrop CMS.  All the issues you see here are issues tagged with the label "type - feature request" from the Backdrop CMS core issue queue. 

# GitHub Issue title Issue # Vote for this feature # of votes
901 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
902 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
903 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
904 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
905 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
906 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
907 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
908 Mobile first approach theme #4131
909 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
910 [D8] Autosave content #3426
911 [D8][A11Y] ALT attributes should be enabled by default on new fields and have an option to set ALT and TITLE attributes as required #3006
912 [UX] Add an admin preview of the type of menu for menu blocks in the "Manage blocks" page. #2325
913 [UX] User "locked" in the authorize.php page #2580
914 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
915 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
916 [D8][UX] Merge Special Menu Items module functionality in core (allow <nolink> and <separator> menu items). #1840
917 Apply image style to default picture #4976
918 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
919 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
920 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
921 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
922 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
923 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
924 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
925 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
926 [UX] Fix hook_update_dependencies() so it won't skip necessary updates #2852
927 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
928 [DX] Make certain field values and entity properties available during save. #2032
929 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
930 Add a new core theme #5175
931 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
932 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
933 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
934 Seventy two theme #5928
935 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
936 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
937 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
938 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
939 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
940 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
941 Add custom block option to follow the translation system easily #2991
942 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
943 VBO: Allow bulk enabling/disabling comments on existing content. #2297
944 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
945 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
946 [UX] Layouts: Visibility conditions (and contexts): Entity ID text fields with autocomplete fields (or entity browser?). #1822
947 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
948 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
949 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
950 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
951 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
952 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
953 [WP] Media Library #3203
954 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
955 [A11Y] Switch Admin Bar to using Smart Menus #2809
956 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
957 [UX] CKEditor/Rich text editor image sizing needs to be optional. #2010
958 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
959 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
960 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
961 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
962 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
963 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
964 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
965 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
966 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
967 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
968 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
969 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
970 [UX] Decide when to add 'block' to the end of block admin titles, and do so consistently. #2255
971 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
972 [UX] Include the "+ Add condition" link/button and the "Remove"/"Configure" links in the "Conditions" fieldset of the #1025
973 Add an option (checkbox) in the layout settings for "Page title type" that enables/disables appending the " | [site-name]" part to the page <title>. #1790
974 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
975 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
976 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
977 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
978 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
979 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
980 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
981 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
982 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
983 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
984 Evaluate the reasons for removal of the Trigger module from core. #2522
985 Feature/Package Module Proposal #1238
986 Create redirects for bulk alias delete #1993

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