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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 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
603 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
604 Add state_override function to core #4725
605 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
606 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
607 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
608 Store entity bundle in comment table #2046
609 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
610 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
611 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
612 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
613 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
614 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
615 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
616 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
617 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
618 [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
619 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
620 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
621 [UX] Add an admin preview of the type of menu for menu blocks in the "Manage blocks" page. #2325
622 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
623 [D8][UX] Merge Special Menu Items module functionality in core (allow <nolink> and <separator> menu items). #1840
624 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
625 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
626 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
627 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
628 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
629 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
630 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
631 [D8] Autosave content #3426
632 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
633 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
634 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
635 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
636 [DX] Make certain field values and entity properties available during save. #2032
637 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
638 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
639 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
640 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
641 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
642 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
643 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
644 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
645 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
646 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
647 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
648 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
649 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
650 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
651 VBO: Allow bulk enabling/disabling comments on existing content. #2297
652 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
653 [UX] Layouts: Visibility conditions (and contexts): Entity ID text fields with autocomplete fields (or entity browser?). #1822
654 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
655 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
656 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
657 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
658 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
659 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
660 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
661 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
662 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
663 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
664 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
665 [UX] CKEditor/Rich text editor image sizing needs to be optional. #2010
666 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
667 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
668 Bring back the initial functionality of _field_write_instance function #5875
669 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
670 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
671 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
672 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
673 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
674 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
675 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
676 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
677 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
678 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
679 [UX] Decide when to add 'block' to the end of block admin titles, and do so consistently. #2255
680 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
681 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
682 Allow altering image style urls #5745
683 [UX] Contact module: Rename "categories" to "recipient groups" in the admin UI - allow customizing the label of the field in the public-facing form #5992
684 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
685 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
686 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
687 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
688 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
689 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
690 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
691 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
692 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
693 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
694 Evaluate the reasons for removal of the Trigger module from core. #2522
695 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
696 Create redirects for bulk alias delete #1993
697 Add new PR template, with reminder to reference an issue #5605
698 Docblock in page.tpl.php lists incorrect 'available' variables. #1981
699 [A11Y] Add `role="main"` attribute to primary content region in each Layout template #5610
700 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963

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