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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 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
402 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
403 Allow regions titles #2647
404 Status Report should flag duplicate module installs #5464
405 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
406 Reuse test prefixes instead of rebuilding them for each test #4353
407 Disable unused layout templates #5068
408 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
409 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
410 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
411 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
412 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
413 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
414 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
415 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
416 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
417 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
418 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
419 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
420 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
421 [UX] Add a token-browser-like PHP date format helper dialog #4556
422 [D8] Manage form display: Allow managing form fields non-programmatically #5219
423 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
424 CSS Architecture with SASS, SMACSS, and BEM #4129
425 [DX] Form API #states: support 'regex' and 'less'/'greater' (than) for value comparison #4781
426 Add global site logo token #5871
427 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
428 Search terms along with nodes #3850
429 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
430 [UX] Automatically update the "Admin Content" view to include language field and exposed filter when more than one language is enabled for the site. #1625
431 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
432 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
433 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
434 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
435 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
436 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
437 [UX] Project installer: collapse met dependencies in the "Enable modules" step #5454
438 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
439 Allow default/required settings on multilingual ("Language") fields #4322
440 [DX][D8] Provide a mechanism to deprecate permissions #5030
441 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
442 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
443 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
444 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
445 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
446 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
447 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
448 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
449 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
450 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
451 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
452 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
453 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
454 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
455 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
456 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
457 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
458 [UX] Menu link items should be kept in sync with their respective content titles #4759
459 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
460 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
461 [SR] Better/safer file type validation #3830
462 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
463 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
464 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
465 'Manage files' view sometimes shows incorrect filename #3507
466 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
467 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
468 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
469 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
470 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
471 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
472 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
473 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
474 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
475 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
476 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
477 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
478 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
479 [UX] CKEditor configuration: Add a label to the "button separator" button #3666
480 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
481 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
482 Database log message is truncated at 56 characters and not configurable #5553
483 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
484 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
485 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
486 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
487 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
488 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
489 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
490 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
491 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
492 [UX] Layouts: Allow menu "source" to be changed from within any menu block #3820
493 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
494 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
495 Content creation page cleanup #202
496 CKEditor: Figure out a way to clear its cache so that plugin changes show up right away. #3460
497 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
498 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
499 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
500 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710

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