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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
801 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
802 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
803 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
804 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
805 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
806 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
807 Separate the Term Reference field from Taxonomy module #5633
808 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
809 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
810 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
811 [DX] Form API: Allow specifying alternative configuration settings for elements using `system_settings_form()`, without having to use custom submit handler #4102
812 Double click prevention #6393
813 Add custom block option to follow the translation system easily #2991
814 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
815 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
816 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
817 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
818 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
819 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
820 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
821 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
822 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
823 Status page: Provide information about the security coverage of the currently-installed minor version #5759
824 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
825 [WP] Media Library #3203
826 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
827 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
828 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
829 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
830 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
831 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
832 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
833 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
834 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
835 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
836 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
837 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
838 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
839 Provide a views filter handler for project properties #5904
840 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
841 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
842 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
843 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
844 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213
845 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
846 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
847 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
848 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
849 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
850 [UX] Add HTML5 Date Widget Support to Views Exposed Form #5768
851 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
852 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
853 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
854 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
855 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
856 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
857 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
858 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
859 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
860 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
861 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
862 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
863 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
864 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
865 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
866 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
867 Consolidate user links on admin bar #4643
868 Basis: Update box-sizing method #4208
869 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
870 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
871 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
872 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
873 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
874 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
875 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
876 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
877 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
878 Add hook_field_schema_alter() #6208
879 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
880 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
881 Allow a hook to alter the list of CSS files parsed by Color module #6240
882 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
883 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
884 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
885 [UX] When there is only one menu item in a section, don't list #4386
886 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
887 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
888 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
889 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
890 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
891 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
892 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
893 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
894 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
895 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
896 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
897 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
898 Allow anonymous users to use a SESSION variable to set timezone #4612
899 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
900 [DX][D8] Allow config files to have dependencies #4188

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