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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
601 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
602 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
603 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
604 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
605 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
606 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
607 [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
608 Showcase core features during install #4138
609 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
610 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
611 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
612 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
613 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
614 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
615 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
616 One click install for digitalocean #5628
617 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
618 [UX] Allow the "Book outline" vertical tab in the content create/edit form to be hidden from users with the "Administer book outlines" permission #3638
619 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
620 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
621 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
622 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
623 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
624 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
625 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
626 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
627 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
628 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
629 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
630 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
631 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
632 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
633 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
634 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
635 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
636 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
637 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
638 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
639 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
640 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
641 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
642 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
643 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
644 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
645 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
646 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
647 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
648 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
649 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
650 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
651 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
652 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
653 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
654 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
655 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
656 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
657 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
658 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
659 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
660 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
661 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
662 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
663 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
664 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
665 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
666 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
667 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
668 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
669 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
670 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
671 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
672 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
673 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
674 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
675 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
676 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
677 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
678 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
679 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
680 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
681 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
682 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
683 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
684 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
685 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
686 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
687 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
688 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
689 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
690 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
691 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
692 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
693 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
694 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
695 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
696 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
697 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
698 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
699 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
700 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906

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