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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 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
602 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
603 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
604 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
605 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
606 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
607 Add custom block option to follow the translation system easily #2991
608 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
609 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
610 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
611 Allow a layout to be selected on additional paths. #1528
612 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
613 [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
614 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
615 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
616 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
617 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
618 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
619 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
620 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
621 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
622 Mobile first approach theme #4131
623 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
624 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
625 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
626 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
627 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
628 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
629 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
630 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
631 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
632 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
633 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
634 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
635 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
636 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
637 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
638 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
639 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
640 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
641 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
642 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
643 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
644 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
645 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
646 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
647 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
648 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
649 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
650 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
651 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
652 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
653 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
654 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
655 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
656 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
657 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
658 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
659 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
660 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
661 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
662 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
663 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
664 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
665 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
666 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
667 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
668 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
669 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
670 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
671 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
672 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
673 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982
674 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
675 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
676 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
677 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
678 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
679 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
680 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
681 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
682 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
683 Create option for a cropped image style to provide consistent image size for Cards view #5593
684 Database log message is truncated at 56 characters and not configurable #5553
685 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
686 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
687 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
688 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863
689 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
690 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
691 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
692 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
693 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
694 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
695 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
696 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
697 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
698 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
699 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
700 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121

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