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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 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
602 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
603 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
604 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
605 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
606 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
607 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
608 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
609 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
610 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
611 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
612 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
613 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
614 [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
615 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
616 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
617 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
618 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
619 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
620 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
621 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
622 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
623 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
624 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
625 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
626 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
627 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
628 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
629 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
630 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
631 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
632 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
633 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
634 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
635 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
636 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
637 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
638 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
639 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
640 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
641 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
642 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
643 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
644 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
645 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
646 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
647 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
648 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
649 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
650 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
651 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
652 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
653 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
654 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
655 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
656 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
657 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
658 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
659 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
660 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
661 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
662 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
663 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
664 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
665 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
666 Create a printable Status Report #5821
667 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
668 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
669 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
670 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
671 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
672 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
673 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
674 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
675 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
676 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
677 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
678 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
679 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
680 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
681 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
682 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
683 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
684 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
685 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
686 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
687 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
688 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
689 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
690 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
691 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
692 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
693 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
694 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
695 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
696 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
697 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
698 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
699 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
700 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110

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