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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 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
602 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
603 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
604 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
605 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
606 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
607 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
608 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
609 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
610 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
611 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
612 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
613 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
614 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
615 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
616 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
617 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
618 [UX][A11y][D10] CKEditor toolbar configuration: allow adding/(re)moving buttons via keyboard #6159
619 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
620 Apply image style to default picture #4976
621 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
622 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
623 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
624 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
625 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
626 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
627 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
628 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
629 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
630 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
631 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
632 [UX] combine different kinds of views link fields #3457
633 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
634 Add a new core theme #5175
635 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
636 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
637 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
638 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
639 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
640 Create a printable Status Report #5821
641 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
642 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
643 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
644 Cannot create menu items linking to existing files #3945
645 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
646 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
647 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
648 [UX] Admin Bar: Make "Development" a top-level menu item #3652
649 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
650 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
651 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
652 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
653 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
654 Add function that returns default config #3251
655 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
656 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
657 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
658 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
659 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
660 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
661 Contact module roadmap: 80% usecase of Webforms in core #3808
662 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
663 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
664 [DX] backdrop_process_states: Introduce a new `primary`/`secondary` set of states for submit buttons #3441
665 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
666 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
667 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
668 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
669 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
670 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
671 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
672 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
673 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
674 Rename default Contact form category #4703
675 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
676 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
677 [D8] theme_table() should take an optional footer variable and produce tfoot #3627
678 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
679 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
680 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
681 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
682 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
683 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
684 [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
685 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232
686 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
687 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
688 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
689 Menu router refactoring #2400
690 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
691 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
692 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
693 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
694 [UX] Make special field items (such as title, language and path alias) available in the "Manage display" tab. #1444
695 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
696 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
697 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
698 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
699 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
700 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61

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