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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 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
602 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
603 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
604 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
605 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
606 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
607 Move "Expanded" option for Menu Items to Block settings #5428
608 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
609 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
610 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
611 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
612 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
613 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
614 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
615 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
616 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
617 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
618 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
619 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
620 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
621 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
622 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
623 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
624 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
625 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
626 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
627 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
628 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
629 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
630 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
631 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
632 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
633 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
634 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
635 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
636 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
637 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
638 Create "Current Node" block #5774
639 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
640 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
641 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
642 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
643 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
644 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
645 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
646 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
647 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
648 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
649 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
650 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
651 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
652 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
653 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
654 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
655 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
656 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
657 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
658 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
659 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
660 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
661 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
662 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
663 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
664 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
665 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
666 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
667 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
668 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
669 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
670 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
671 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
672 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
673 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
674 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
675 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
676 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
677 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
678 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
679 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
680 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
681 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
682 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
683 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
684 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
685 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
686 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
687 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
688 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
689 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
690 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
691 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
692 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
693 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
694 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
695 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
696 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
697 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
698 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
699 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
700 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067

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