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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 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
402 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
403 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
404 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
405 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
406 [UX] Decide when to add 'block' to the end of block admin titles, and do so consistently. #2255
407 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
408 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
409 Add an option (checkbox) in the layout settings for "Page title type" that enables/disables appending the " | [site-name]" part to the page <title>. #1790
410 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
411 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
412 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
413 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
414 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
415 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
416 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
417 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
418 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
419 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
420 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
421 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
422 Docblock in page.tpl.php lists incorrect 'available' variables. #1981
423 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
424 [SR] Better/safer file type validation #3830
425 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
426 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
427 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
428 'Manage files' view sometimes shows incorrect filename #3507
429 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
430 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
431 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
432 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
433 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
434 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
435 [DX] Simplify getting and setting of values without using the 'und' data structure in entities #2240
436 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
437 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
438 [UX] Project Browser: Improve the project details modal. #1778
439 [UX] CKEditor configuration: Add a label to the "button separator" button #3666
440 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
441 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
442 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
443 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
444 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
445 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
446 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
447 [UX] Consider replacing the block title type drop-down with an always required (and unique) block title field. #2483
448 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
449 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
450 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
451 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
452 [UX] Layouts: Use icons within drop buttons on small/mobile screens #1974
453 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
454 [UX] Layouts: Allow menu "source" to be changed from within any menu block #3820
455 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
456 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
457 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
458 CKEditor: Figure out a way to clear its cache so that plugin changes show up right away. #3460
459 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
460 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
461 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
462 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
463 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
464 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
465 [UX] Swap tab order of "Export" and "Import" config pages #2185
466 [UX] Add "Configure page title" tab to Layout admin pages #3983
467 Create "Current Node" block #5774
468 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
469 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
470 [UX] Better image style previews. #1772
471 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
472 [UX][D8] Views: Expose responsive classes in the UI via table settings #3656
473 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
474 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
475 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
476 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
477 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
478 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
479 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
480 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
481 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
482 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
483 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
484 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
485 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
486 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
487 [UX] Allow cloning any user role (along with its permissions) #3813
488 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
489 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
490 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
491 Better handling of location in locale source #3451
492 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
493 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
494 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
495 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
496 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
497 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
498 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
499 Feature request for Internal Redirects #3940
500 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269

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