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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 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
602 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
603 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
604 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
605 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
606 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
607 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
608 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
609 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
610 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
611 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
612 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
613 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
614 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
615 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
616 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
617 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
618 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
619 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
620 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
621 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
622 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
623 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
624 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
625 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
626 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
627 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
628 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
629 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
630 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
631 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
632 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
633 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
634 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
635 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
636 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
637 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
638 Content creation page cleanup #202
639 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
640 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
641 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
642 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
643 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
644 Seventy two theme #5928
645 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
646 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
647 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
648 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
649 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
650 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
651 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
652 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
653 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
654 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
655 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
656 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
657 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
658 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
659 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
660 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
661 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
662 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
663 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
664 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
665 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
666 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
667 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
668 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
669 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
670 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
671 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
672 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
673 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
674 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
675 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
676 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
677 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
678 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
679 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
680 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
681 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
682 Trim textfields? #6386
683 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
684 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
685 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
686 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
687 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
688 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
689 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
690 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
691 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
692 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
693 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
694 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
695 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
696 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
697 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
698 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
699 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
700 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365

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