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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 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
402 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
403 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
404 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
405 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
406 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
407 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
408 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
409 Better Book navigation links #4879
410 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
411 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
412 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
413 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
414 Trim textfields? #6386
415 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
416 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
417 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
418 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
419 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
420 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
421 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
422 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
423 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
424 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
425 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
426 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
427 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
428 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
429 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
430 Seventy two theme #5928
431 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
432 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
433 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
434 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
435 authorize.php should be used for all Installer module downloads/installs #2271
436 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
437 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
438 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
439 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
440 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
441 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
442 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
443 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
444 Mobile first approach theme #4131
445 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
446 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
447 [UX] Streamline the process of disabling and uninstalling modules (a.k.a. "Uninstallation queue"). #2532
448 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
449 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
450 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
451 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
452 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
453 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
454 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
455 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
456 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
457 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
458 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
459 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
460 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
461 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
462 Telemetry: Collect Internet Status At Time Of Install #5222
463 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
464 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
465 Get rid of all Backdrop markers in HTML page source #4817
466 [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
467 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
468 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
469 Double click prevention #6393
470 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
471 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
472 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
473 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
474 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
475 [UX] Allow non-technical people to grab a text export of key information about their site - for troubleshooting requests #5461
476 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
477 [D9] Add 'published' timestamp to nodes #5062
478 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
479 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
480 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
481 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
482 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
483 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
484 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
485 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
486 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
487 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
488 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
489 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
490 [PS][D9] Dynamic Page Cache add in Backdrop core #5217
491 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
492 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
493 [A11Y] Native dark mode support (at least for the Seven admin theme) #4778
494 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
495 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
496 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
497 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
498 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
499 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
500 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501

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