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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 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
902 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
903 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
904 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
905 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
906 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
907 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
908 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
909 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
910 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
911 Allow anonymous users to use a SESSION variable to set timezone #4612
912 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
913 Feature/Package Module Proposal #1238
914 [DX][D8] Allow config files to have dependencies #4188
915 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
916 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
917 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
918 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
919 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
920 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
921 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
922 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
923 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
924 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
925 Add layouts into the search index #5128
926 [UX] When there is only one menu item in a section, don't list #4386
927 [UX] Include the "+ Add condition" link/button and the "Remove"/"Configure" links in the "Conditions" fieldset of the #1025
928 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
929 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
930 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
931 Add function that returns default config #3251
932 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
933 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
934 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
935 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
936 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
937 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
938 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
939 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
940 [SR] Add a minimum length setting for passwords #4589
941 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
942 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
943 Better Book navigation links #4879
944 Request to add a link to project pages for modules on Functionality page #4179
945 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
946 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
947 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
948 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
949 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
950 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
951 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
952 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
953 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
954 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
955 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
956 Display default views on a separate tab #4369
957 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
958 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
959 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
960 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
961 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
962 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232
963 uuid and entity import / export #890
964 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
965 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
966 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
967 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
968 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
969 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
970 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
971 [UX] Provide a report page that lists all configured paths where files are being saved. #4585
972 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
973 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
974 Improve the styling of color input elements in the admin theme #4155
975 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
976 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
977 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
978 [DX] Implement hook_hook_info() to help organize module code #3024
979 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
980 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
981 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
982 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
983 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
984 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
985 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
986 Reuse test prefixes instead of rebuilding them for each test #4353

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