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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 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
902 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
903 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
904 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
905 Apply image style to default picture #4976
906 Cache settings via admin section #1434
907 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
908 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
909 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
910 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
911 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
912 [UX] Swap tab order of "Export" and "Import" config pages #2185
913 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
914 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
915 [UX] Better image style previews. #1772
916 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
917 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
918 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
919 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
920 Add a new core theme #5175
921 [DX] Make views query output easier to read with indentation & line breaks #1590
922 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
923 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
924 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
925 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
926 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
927 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
928 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
929 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
930 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
931 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
932 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
933 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
934 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
935 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
936 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
937 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
938 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
939 Add a simple way in core to define private and public access for nodes/entities. #1407
940 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
941 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
942 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
943 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
944 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
945 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
946 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
947 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
948 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
949 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
950 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
951 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
952 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
953 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
954 [UX] Have a "Contact" menu item be enabled and added to the primary navigation by default when enabling contact.module. #1572
955 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
956 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
957 Create "Current Node" block #5774
958 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
959 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
960 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
961 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
962 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
963 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
964 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
965 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
966 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
967 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
968 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
969 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
970 [D8] Port and merge Local Image Input Filter in core #1384
971 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
972 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002
973 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
974 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
975 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
976 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
977 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
978 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
979 [D8] Autosave content #3426
980 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
981 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
982 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
983 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
984 Prepend the content type name in the "Permissions" vtab permission names when creating a content type. #1539
985 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
986 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213

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