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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 Allow a layout to be selected on additional paths. #1528
602 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
603 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
604 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
605 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
606 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
607 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
608 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
609 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
610 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
611 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
612 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
613 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
614 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
615 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
616 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
617 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
618 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
619 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
620 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
621 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
622 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
623 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
624 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
625 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
626 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
627 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
628 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
629 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
630 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
631 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
632 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
633 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
634 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
635 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
636 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
637 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
638 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
639 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
640 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
641 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
642 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
643 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
644 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
645 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
646 Create "Current Node" block #5774
647 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
648 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
649 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
650 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
651 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
652 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
653 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
654 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
655 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
656 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
657 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
658 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
659 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
660 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
661 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
662 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
663 Add function that returns default config #3251
664 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
665 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
666 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
667 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
668 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
669 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
670 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
671 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
672 Add hook_field_schema_alter() #6208
673 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
674 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
675 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
676 Allow a hook to alter the list of CSS files parsed by Color module #6240
677 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
678 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
679 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
680 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
681 [DX] Implement hook_hook_info() to help organize module code #3024
682 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
683 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
684 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
685 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
686 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
687 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
688 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
689 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
690 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
691 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
692 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
693 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
694 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
695 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232
696 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
697 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
698 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
699 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
700 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478

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