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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 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
602 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
603 Create "Current Node" block #5774
604 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
605 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
606 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
607 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
608 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
609 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
610 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
611 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
612 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
613 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
614 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
615 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
616 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
617 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
618 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
619 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
620 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
621 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
622 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
623 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
624 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
625 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
626 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
627 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
628 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
629 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
630 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
631 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
632 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
633 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
634 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
635 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
636 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
637 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
638 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
639 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
640 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
641 Content creation page cleanup #202
642 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
643 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
644 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
645 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
646 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
647 Seventy two theme #5928
648 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
649 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
650 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
651 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
652 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
653 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
654 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
655 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
656 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
657 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
658 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
659 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
660 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
661 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
662 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
663 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
664 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
665 [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
666 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
667 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
668 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
669 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
670 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
671 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
672 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
673 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
674 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
675 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
676 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
677 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
678 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
679 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
680 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
681 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
682 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
683 Trim textfields? #6386
684 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
685 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
686 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
687 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
688 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
689 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
690 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
691 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
692 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
693 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
694 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
695 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
696 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
697 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
698 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
699 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
700 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893

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