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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 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
902 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
903 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
904 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
905 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
906 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
907 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
908 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
909 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
910 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
911 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
912 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
913 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
914 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
915 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
916 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
917 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
918 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
919 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
920 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
921 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
922 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
923 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
924 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
925 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
926 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
927 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
928 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
929 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
930 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
931 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
932 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
933 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
934 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
935 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
936 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
937 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
938 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
939 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
940 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
941 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
942 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
943 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
944 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
945 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
946 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
947 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
948 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
949 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
950 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
951 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
952 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
953 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
954 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
955 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
956 Create "Current Node" block #5774
957 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
958 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
959 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
960 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
961 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
962 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
963 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
964 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
965 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
966 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
967 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
968 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
969 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
970 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
971 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
972 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
973 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
974 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
975 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
976 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
977 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
978 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
979 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
980 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
981 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
982 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
983 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674

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