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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 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
902 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
903 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
904 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
905 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
906 Allow regions titles #2647
907 Allow setting a default value for Alt and Title text in image fields #1439
908 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
909 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
910 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
911 [UX] Permissions page: Make permission groups rows collapsible/expandable. #1046
912 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
913 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
914 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
915 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
916 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
917 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
918 Create a printable Status Report #5821
919 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
920 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
921 Security: Consider adding an option to load public forms through AJAX. #1592
922 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
923 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
924 Remove syslog module from core #1260
925 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
926 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
927 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
928 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
929 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
930 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
931 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
932 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
933 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
934 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
935 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
936 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
937 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
938 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
939 Implement sub-path aliases - a.k.a.: `subpathauto` or `path_alias_xt` in core #1418
940 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
941 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
942 [UX] Token browser dialog: increase width (and height?). #1038
943 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
944 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
945 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
946 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
947 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
948 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
949 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
950 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
951 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
952 [UX] Branding and Version info on Installation Screens #1584
953 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
954 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
955 Do not allow modules to be enabled at all if they have conflicting config file names with any existing config. #1242
956 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
957 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
958 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
959 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
960 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
961 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
962 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
963 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
964 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
965 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
966 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
967 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
968 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
969 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
970 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
971 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
972 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
973 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
974 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
975 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
976 Mobile first approach theme #4131
977 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
978 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
979 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
980 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
981 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
982 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
983 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
984 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
985 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
986 Menu router refactoring #2400

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