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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 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
602 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
603 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
604 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
605 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
606 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
607 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
608 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
609 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
610 Move "Expanded" option for Menu Items to Block settings #5428
611 Make mobile menu toggle text configurable #6264
612 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
613 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
614 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
615 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
616 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
617 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
618 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
619 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
620 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
621 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
622 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
623 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
624 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
625 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
626 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
627 [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
628 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
629 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
630 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
631 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
632 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
633 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
634 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
635 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
636 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
637 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
638 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
639 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
640 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
641 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
642 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
643 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
644 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
645 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
646 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
647 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
648 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
649 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
650 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
651 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
652 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
653 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
654 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
655 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
656 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
657 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
658 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
659 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
660 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
661 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
662 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
663 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
664 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
665 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
666 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
667 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
668 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
669 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
670 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
671 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
672 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
673 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
674 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
675 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
676 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
677 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
678 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
679 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
680 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
681 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
682 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
683 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
684 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
685 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
686 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
687 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
688 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
689 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
690 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
691 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
692 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
693 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
694 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
695 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
696 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
697 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
698 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
699 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
700 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940

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