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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 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
902 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
903 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
904 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
905 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
906 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
907 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
908 Mobile first approach theme #4131
909 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
910 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
911 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
912 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
913 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
914 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
915 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
916 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
917 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
918 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
919 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
920 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
921 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
922 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
923 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
924 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
925 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
926 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
927 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
928 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
929 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
930 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
931 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
932 Create "Current Node" block #5774
933 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
934 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
935 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
936 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
937 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
938 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
939 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
940 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
941 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
942 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
943 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
944 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
945 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
946 Add state_override function to core #4725
947 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
948 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
949 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
950 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
951 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
952 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
953 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
954 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
955 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
956 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
957 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
958 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
959 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
960 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
961 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
962 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
963 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
964 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
965 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
966 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
967 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
968 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
969 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
970 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
971 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
972 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
973 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
974 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
975 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
976 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
977 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
978 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
979 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
980 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
981 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902

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