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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 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
602 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
603 One click install for digitalocean #5628
604 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
605 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
606 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
607 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
608 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
609 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
610 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
611 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
612 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
613 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
614 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
615 Move "Expanded" option for Menu Items to Block settings #5428
616 Make mobile menu toggle text configurable #6264
617 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
618 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
619 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
620 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
621 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
622 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
623 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
624 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
625 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
626 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
627 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
628 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
629 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
630 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
631 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
632 [UX] Allow the "Book outline" vertical tab in the content create/edit form to be hidden from users with the "Administer book outlines" permission #3638
633 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
634 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
635 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
636 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
637 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
638 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
639 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
640 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
641 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
642 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
643 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
644 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
645 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
646 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
647 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
648 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
649 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
650 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
651 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
652 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
653 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
654 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
655 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
656 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
657 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
658 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
659 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
660 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
661 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
662 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
663 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
664 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
665 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
666 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
667 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
668 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
669 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
670 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
671 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
672 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
673 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
674 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
675 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
676 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
677 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
678 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
679 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
680 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
681 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
682 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
683 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
684 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
685 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
686 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
687 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
688 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
689 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
690 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
691 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
692 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
693 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
694 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
695 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
696 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
697 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
698 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
699 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
700 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096

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