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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 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
602 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
603 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
604 [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
605 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
606 Double click prevention #6393
607 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
608 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
609 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
610 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
611 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
612 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
613 [DX] Implement hook_hook_info() to help organize module code #3024
614 Mobile first approach theme #4131
615 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
616 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
617 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
618 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
619 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
620 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
621 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
622 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
623 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
624 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
625 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232
626 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
627 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
628 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
629 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
630 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
631 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
632 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
633 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
634 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
635 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
636 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
637 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
638 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
639 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
640 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
641 Telemetry: Collect the Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) #5449
642 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
643 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
644 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
645 Filter module: Add a data-path-id for internal links to make it easier to track and update internal paths #5004
646 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
647 Use config for color module palettes #2554
648 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
649 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
650 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
651 Add hook_field_schema_alter() #6208
652 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
653 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
654 Config management diff: Rename "Old" and "New" to something more meaningful #3221
655 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
656 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
657 As view fields, titles for Pageless nodes show links even for those without access. #5214
658 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
659 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
660 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
661 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
662 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
663 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
664 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
665 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
666 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
667 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
668 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
669 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
670 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
671 [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
672 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
673 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
674 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
675 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
676 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
677 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
678 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
679 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
680 Allow a hook to alter the list of CSS files parsed by Color module #6240
681 Create a printable Status Report #5821
682 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
683 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
684 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
685 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
686 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
687 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
688 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
689 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
690 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
691 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
692 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
693 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
694 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
695 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
696 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
697 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
698 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
699 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
700 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403

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