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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 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
602 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
603 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
604 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
605 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
606 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
607 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
608 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
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 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
612 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
613 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
614 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
615 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
616 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
617 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
618 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
619 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
620 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
621 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
622 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
623 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
624 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
625 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
626 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
627 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
628 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
629 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
630 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
631 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
632 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
633 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
634 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
635 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
636 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
637 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
638 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
639 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
640 Create "Current Node" block #5774
641 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
642 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
643 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
644 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
645 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
646 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
647 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
648 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
649 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
650 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
651 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
652 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
653 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
654 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
655 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
656 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
657 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
658 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
659 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
660 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
661 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
662 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
663 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
664 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
665 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
666 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
667 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
668 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
669 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
670 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
671 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
672 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
673 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
674 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
675 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
676 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
677 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
678 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
679 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
680 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
681 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
682 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
683 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
684 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
685 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
686 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
687 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
688 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
689 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
690 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
691 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
692 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
693 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
694 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
695 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
696 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
697 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
698 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
699 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
700 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820

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