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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
401 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
402 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
403 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
404 Allow anonymous users to use a SESSION variable to set timezone #4612
405 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
406 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
407 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
408 [DX][D8] Allow config files to have dependencies #4188
409 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
410 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
411 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
412 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
413 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
414 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
415 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
416 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
417 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
418 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
419 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
420 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
421 Display default views on a separate tab #4369
422 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
423 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
424 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
425 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
426 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
427 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
428 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
429 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
430 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
431 Double click prevention #6393
432 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
433 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
434 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
435 [SR] Add a minimum length setting for passwords #4589
436 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
437 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
438 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
439 Request to add a link to project pages for modules on Functionality page #4179
440 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
441 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
442 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
443 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
444 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
445 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
446 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
447 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
448 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
449 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
450 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
451 Reuse test prefixes instead of rebuilding them for each test #4353
452 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
453 [UX] Include the "+ Add condition" link/button and the "Remove"/"Configure" links in the "Conditions" fieldset of the #1025
454 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
455 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
456 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
457 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
458 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
459 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
460 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
461 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
462 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
463 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
464 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
465 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
466 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
467 [UX] Provide a report page that lists all configured paths where files are being saved. #4585
468 Menu router refactoring #2400
469 Feature/Package Module Proposal #1238
470 Improve the styling of color input elements in the admin theme #4155
471 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
472 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
473 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
474 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
475 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
476 Add function that returns default config #3251
477 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
478 Add hook_field_schema_alter() #6208
479 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
480 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
481 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
482 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
483 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
484 Allow default/required settings on multilingual ("Language") fields #4322
485 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
486 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
487 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
488 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
489 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
490 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
491 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
492 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
493 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
494 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
495 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
496 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
497 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
498 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
499 [UX] Add a token-browser-like PHP date format helper dialog #4556
500 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383

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