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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] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
602 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
603 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
604 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
605 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
606 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
607 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
608 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
609 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
610 Add function that returns default config #3251
611 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
612 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
613 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
614 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
615 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
616 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
617 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
618 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
619 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
620 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
621 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
622 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
623 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
624 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
625 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
626 [DX] Implement hook_hook_info() to help organize module code #3024
627 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
628 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
629 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
630 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
631 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
632 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
633 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
634 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
635 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
636 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
637 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
638 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232
639 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
640 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
641 uuid and entity import / export #890
642 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
643 Create a printable Status Report #5821
644 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
645 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
646 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
647 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
648 Mobile first approach theme #4131
649 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
650 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
651 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
652 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
653 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
654 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
655 Use config for color module palettes #2554
656 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
657 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
658 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
659 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
660 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
661 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
662 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
663 Config management diff: Rename "Old" and "New" to something more meaningful #3221
664 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
665 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
666 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
667 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
668 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
669 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
670 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
671 [UX] Views: Make the "Label for "Any" value" a text field and have it be configurable per view and per exposed filter within each view. #2033
672 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
673 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
674 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
675 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
676 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
677 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
678 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
679 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
680 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
681 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
682 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
683 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
684 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
685 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
686 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
687 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
688 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
689 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
690 Add layouts into the search index #5128
691 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
692 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
693 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
694 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
695 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
696 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
697 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
698 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
699 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
700 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498

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