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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 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
602 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
603 [UX] Admin Bar: Add a single, centralized point of entry for adding content, files, user accounts etc. #5884
604 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
605 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
606 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
607 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
608 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
609 Feature/Package Module Proposal #1238
610 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
611 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
612 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
613 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
614 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
615 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
616 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
617 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
618 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
619 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
620 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
621 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
622 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
623 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
624 Mobile first approach theme #4131
625 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
626 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
627 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
628 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
629 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
630 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
631 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
632 One click install for digitalocean #5628
633 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
634 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
635 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
636 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
637 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
638 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
639 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
640 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
641 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
642 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
643 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
644 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
645 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
646 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
647 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
648 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
649 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
650 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
651 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
652 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
653 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
654 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
655 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
656 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
657 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
658 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
659 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
660 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
661 [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
662 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
663 Add state_override function to core #4725
664 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
665 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
666 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
667 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
668 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
669 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
670 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
671 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
672 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
673 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
674 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
675 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
676 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
677 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
678 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
679 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
680 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
681 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
682 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
683 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
684 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
685 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
686 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
687 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
688 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
689 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
690 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
691 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
692 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
693 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
694 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
695 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
696 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
697 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
698 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
699 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
700 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131

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