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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 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
202 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
203 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
204 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
205 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
206 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
207 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
208 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
209 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
210 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
211 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
212 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
213 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
214 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
215 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
216 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
217 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
218 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
219 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
220 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
221 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
222 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
223 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
224 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
225 Create a printable Status Report #5821
226 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
227 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
228 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
229 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
230 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
231 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
232 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
233 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
234 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
235 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
236 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
237 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
238 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
239 Rename default Contact form category #4703
240 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
241 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
242 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
243 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
244 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
245 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
246 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
247 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
248 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
249 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
250 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
251 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
252 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
253 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
254 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
255 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
256 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
257 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
258 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
259 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
260 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
261 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
262 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
263 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
264 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
265 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
266 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
267 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
268 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
269 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
270 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
271 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
272 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
273 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
274 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
275 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
276 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
277 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
278 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
279 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
280 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
281 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
282 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
283 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
284 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
285 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
286 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
287 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
288 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
289 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
290 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
291 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
292 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
293 Add layouts into the search index #5128
294 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
295 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
296 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
297 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
298 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
299 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
300 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874

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