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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 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
202 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
203 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
204 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
205 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
206 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
207 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
208 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
209 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
210 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
211 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
212 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
213 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
214 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
215 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
216 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
217 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
218 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
219 Trim textfields? #6386
220 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
221 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
222 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
223 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
224 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
225 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
226 Create a printable Status Report #5821
227 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
228 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
229 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
230 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
231 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
232 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
233 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
234 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
235 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
236 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
237 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
238 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
239 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
240 Rename default Contact form category #4703
241 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
242 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
243 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
244 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
245 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
246 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
247 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
248 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
249 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
250 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
251 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
252 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
253 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
254 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
255 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
256 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
257 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
258 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
259 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
260 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
261 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
262 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
263 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
264 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
265 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
266 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
267 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
268 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
269 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
270 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
271 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
272 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
273 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
274 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
275 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
276 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
277 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
278 Double click prevention #6393
279 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
280 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
281 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
282 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
283 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
284 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
285 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
286 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
287 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
288 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
289 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
290 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
291 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
292 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
293 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
294 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
295 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
296 Add layouts into the search index #5128
297 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
298 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
299 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
300 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648

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