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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 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
902 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
903 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
904 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
905 Menu router refactoring #2400
906 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
907 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
908 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
909 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
910 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
911 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
912 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
913 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
914 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
915 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
916 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
917 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
918 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
919 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
920 Create a printable Status Report #5821
921 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
922 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
923 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
924 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
925 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
926 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
927 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
928 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
929 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
930 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
931 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
932 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
933 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
934 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
935 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
936 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
937 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
938 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
939 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
940 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
941 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
942 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
943 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
944 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
945 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
946 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
947 Allow regions titles #2647
948 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
949 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
950 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
951 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
952 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
953 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
954 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002
955 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
956 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
957 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
958 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
959 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
960 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
961 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
962 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
963 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
964 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
965 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
966 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
967 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
968 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213
969 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
970 Search terms along with nodes #3850
971 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
972 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
973 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
974 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
975 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
976 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
977 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
978 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
979 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
980 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
981 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
982 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
983 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110

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