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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
501 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
502 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
503 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
504 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
505 Create a printable Status Report #5821
506 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
507 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
508 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
509 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
510 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
511 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
512 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
513 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
514 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
515 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
516 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
517 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
518 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
519 Rename default Contact form category #4703
520 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
521 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
522 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
523 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
524 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
525 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
526 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
527 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
528 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
529 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
530 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
531 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
532 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
533 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
534 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
535 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
536 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
537 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
538 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
539 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
540 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
541 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
542 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
543 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
544 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
545 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
546 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
547 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
548 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
549 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
550 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
551 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
552 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
553 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
554 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
555 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
556 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
557 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
558 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
559 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
560 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
561 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
562 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
563 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
564 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
565 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
566 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
567 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
568 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
569 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
570 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
571 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
572 Add layouts into the search index #5128
573 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
574 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
575 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
576 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
577 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
578 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
579 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
580 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
581 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
582 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
583 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
584 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
585 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
586 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
587 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
588 Better Book navigation links #4879
589 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
590 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
591 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
592 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
593 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
594 Redirects write to json files? #4001
595 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
596 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
597 uuid and entity import / export #890
598 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
599 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
600 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190

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