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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 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
202 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
203 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
204 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
205 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
206 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
207 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
208 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
209 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
210 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
211 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
212 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
213 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
214 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
215 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
216 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
217 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
218 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
219 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
220 Use config for color module palettes #2554
221 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
222 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
223 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
224 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
225 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
226 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
227 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
228 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
229 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
230 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
231 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
232 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
233 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
234 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
235 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
236 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
237 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
238 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
239 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
240 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
241 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
242 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
243 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
244 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
245 [D8] Autosave content #3426
246 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
247 As view fields, titles for Pageless nodes show links even for those without access. #5214
248 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
249 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
250 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
251 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
252 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
253 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
254 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
255 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
256 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
257 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
258 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
259 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
260 [WP] Media Library #3203
261 Telemetry: Collect the Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) #5449
262 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
263 Filter module: Add a data-path-id for internal links to make it easier to track and update internal paths #5004
264 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
265 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
266 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
267 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
268 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
269 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
270 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
271 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
272 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
273 Mobile first approach theme #4131
274 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
275 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
276 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
277 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
278 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
279 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
280 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
281 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
282 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
283 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
284 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
285 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
286 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
287 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
288 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
289 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
290 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
291 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
292 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
293 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
294 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
295 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
296 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
297 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
298 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
299 Create "Current Node" block #5774
300 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193

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