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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
201 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
202 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
203 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
204 Move "Expanded" option for Menu Items to Block settings #5428
205 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
206 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
207 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
208 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
209 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
210 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
211 [UX] Project Browser: Move the pages where one can **MANAGE** installed modules/themes/layouts as separate primary tabs under a single top-level menu item. #1780
212 Showcase core features during install #4138
213 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
214 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
215 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
216 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
217 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
218 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
219 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
220 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
221 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
222 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
223 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
224 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
225 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
226 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
227 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
228 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
229 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
230 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
231 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
232 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
233 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
234 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
235 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
236 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
237 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
238 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
239 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
240 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
241 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
242 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
243 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
244 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
245 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
246 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
247 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
248 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
249 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
250 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
251 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
252 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
253 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
254 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
255 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
256 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
257 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
258 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
259 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
260 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
261 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
262 Create "Current Node" block #5774
263 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
264 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
265 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
266 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
267 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
268 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
269 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
270 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
271 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
272 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
273 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
274 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
275 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
276 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
277 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
278 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
279 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
280 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
281 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
282 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
283 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
284 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
285 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
286 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
287 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
288 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
289 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
290 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
291 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
292 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
293 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
294 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
295 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
296 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
297 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
298 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
299 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
300 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337

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