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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
401 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
402 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
403 Easier/better way to revert Views' settings #4368
404 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
405 [UX] Branding and Version info on Installation Screens #1584
406 Do not allow modules to be enabled at all if they have conflicting config file names with any existing config. #1242
407 [D8] theme_table() should take an optional footer variable and produce tfoot #3627
408 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
409 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
410 [DX] Allow Config::get()/config_get() to specify a default - same as update_variable_get() #5453
411 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
412 [A11Y] Switch Admin Bar to using Smart Menus #2809
413 'Unused' module detector #5020
414 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
415 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
416 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
417 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
418 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
419 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
420 [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
421 Showcase core features during install #4138
422 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
423 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
424 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
425 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
426 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
427 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
428 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
429 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
430 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
431 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
432 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
433 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
434 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
435 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
436 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
437 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
438 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
439 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
440 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
441 Move "Expanded" option for Menu Items to Block settings #5428
442 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
443 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
444 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
445 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
446 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
447 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
448 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
449 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
450 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
451 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
452 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
453 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
454 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
455 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
456 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
457 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
458 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
459 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
460 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
461 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
462 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
463 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
464 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
465 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
466 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
467 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
468 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
469 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
470 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
471 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
472 Create "Current Node" block #5774
473 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
474 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
475 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
476 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
477 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
478 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
479 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
480 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
481 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
482 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
483 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
484 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
485 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
486 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
487 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
488 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
489 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
490 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
491 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
492 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
493 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
494 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
495 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
496 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
497 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
498 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
499 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
500 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952

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