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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] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
602 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
603 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
604 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
605 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
606 [UX] CKeditor: Allow the Styles dropdown to use tag names (for easy use of the <small> tag) #2980
607 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
608 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
609 [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
610 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
611 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
612 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
613 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
614 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
615 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
616 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
617 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
618 Content creation page cleanup #202
619 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
620 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
621 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
622 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
623 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
624 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
625 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
626 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
627 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
628 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
629 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
630 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
631 Add a new core theme #5175
632 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
633 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
634 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
635 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
636 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
637 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
638 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
639 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
640 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
641 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
642 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
643 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
644 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
645 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
646 Create a printable Status Report #5821
647 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
648 Apply image style to default picture #4976
649 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
650 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
651 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
652 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
653 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
654 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
655 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
656 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
657 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
658 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
659 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
660 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
661 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
662 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
663 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
664 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
665 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
666 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
667 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
668 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
669 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
670 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
671 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
672 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
673 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
674 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
675 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
676 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
677 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
678 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
679 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
680 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
681 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
682 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
683 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
684 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
685 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
686 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
687 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
688 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
689 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
690 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
691 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
692 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
693 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
694 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
695 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
696 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
697 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
698 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
699 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
700 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892

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