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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 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
602 [UX] Project installer: collapse met dependencies in the "Enable modules" step #5454
603 [DX][D8] Provide a mechanism to deprecate permissions #5030
604 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
605 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
606 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
607 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
608 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
609 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
610 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
611 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
612 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
613 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
614 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
615 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
616 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
617 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
618 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
619 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
620 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
621 [UX] Menu link items should be kept in sync with their respective content titles #4759
622 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
623 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
624 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
625 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
626 [UX] combine different kinds of views link fields #3457
627 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
628 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
629 Create a printable Status Report #5821
630 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
631 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
632 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
633 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
634 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
635 Cannot create menu items linking to existing files #3945
636 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
637 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
638 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
639 [UX] Admin Bar: Make "Development" a top-level menu item #3652
640 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
641 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
642 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
643 Mobile first approach theme #4131
644 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
645 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
646 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
647 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
648 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
649 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
650 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
651 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
652 Contact module roadmap: 80% usecase of Webforms in core #3808
653 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
654 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
655 [DX] backdrop_process_states: Introduce a new `primary`/`secondary` set of states for submit buttons #3441
656 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
657 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
658 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
659 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
660 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
661 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
662 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
663 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
664 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
665 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
666 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
667 [D8] theme_table() should take an optional footer variable and produce tfoot #3627
668 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
669 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
670 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
671 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
672 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
673 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
674 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
675 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
676 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
677 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
678 Add a new core theme #5175
679 Security: Consider adding an option to load public forms through AJAX. #1592
680 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
681 Remove syslog module from core #1260
682 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
683 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
684 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
685 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
686 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
687 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
688 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
689 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
690 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
691 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
692 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
693 Apply image style to default picture #4976
694 Allow setting a default value for Alt and Title text in image fields #1439
695 Menu router refactoring #2400
696 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
697 [UX] Permissions page: Make permission groups rows collapsible/expandable. #1046
698 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
699 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
700 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103

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