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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 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
602 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
603 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
604 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
605 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
606 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
607 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
608 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
609 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
610 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
611 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
612 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
613 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
614 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
615 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
616 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
617 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
618 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
619 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232
620 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
621 [UX] When uninstalling a module, list all things that will be lost (blocks, views, menus) in the confirmation page. #1624
622 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
623 Add layouts into the search index #5128
624 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
625 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
626 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
627 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
628 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
629 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
630 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
631 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
632 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
633 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
634 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
635 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
636 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
637 [DX] Implement hook_hook_info() to help organize module code #3024
638 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
639 [UX] Make special field items (such as title, language and path alias) available in the "Manage display" tab. #1444
640 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
641 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
642 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
643 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
644 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
645 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
646 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
647 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
648 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
649 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
650 Config management diff: Rename "Old" and "New" to something more meaningful #3221
651 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
652 Allow core libraries to be served via CDN #1593
653 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
654 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
655 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
656 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
657 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
658 [UX] Add the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" links to the operations dropbutton in the content type admin page and also the respective admin menu items. #1262
659 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
660 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
661 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
662 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
663 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
664 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
665 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
666 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
667 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
668 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
669 Add support for tokens in the file field names and paths (File Field Paths module in core) #1440
670 Better Book navigation links #4879
671 Use config for color module palettes #2554
672 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
673 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
674 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
675 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863
676 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
677 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
678 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
679 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
680 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
681 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
682 [DX] Make views query output easier to read with indentation & line breaks #1590
683 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
684 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
685 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
686 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
687 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
688 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
689 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
690 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
691 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
692 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982
693 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
694 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
695 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
696 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
697 More useful tags for views #6268
698 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
699 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
700 Cache settings via admin section #1434

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