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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 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
402 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
403 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
404 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
405 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
406 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
407 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
408 [DX] Make views query output easier to read with indentation & line breaks #1590
409 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
410 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
411 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
412 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
413 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
414 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
415 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
416 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
417 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
418 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
419 Create "Current Node" block #5774
420 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
421 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
422 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
423 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
424 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
425 Add a simple way in core to define private and public access for nodes/entities. #1407
426 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
427 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
428 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
429 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
430 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
431 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
432 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
433 Redirects write to json files? #4001
434 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
435 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
436 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
437 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
438 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
439 [UX] Have a "Contact" menu item be enabled and added to the primary navigation by default when enabling contact.module. #1572
440 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
441 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
442 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
443 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
444 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
445 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
446 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
447 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
448 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
449 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
450 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
451 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
452 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
453 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
454 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
455 [D8] Port and merge Local Image Input Filter in core #1384
456 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
457 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
458 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
459 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
460 Custom Block contextual link #4390
461 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
462 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
463 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
464 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
465 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
466 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
467 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
468 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
469 Prepend the content type name in the "Permissions" vtab permission names when creating a content type. #1539
470 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
471 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
472 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
473 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
474 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
475 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
476 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
477 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
478 [UX] Add a new pageless node above the "Promoted Content" block on Home page #4849
479 Trim textfields? #6386
480 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
481 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
482 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
483 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
484 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
485 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
486 Provide `original` vocabulary to presave and update vocabulary hooks #5475
487 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
488 [UX] Reduce Update Status module's nagging messages on admin/* pages #5083
489 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
490 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
491 Seventy two theme #5928
492 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
493 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
494 Allow a layout to be selected on additional paths. #1528
495 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
496 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
497 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
498 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
499 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
500 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607

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