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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 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
602 [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
603 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
604 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
605 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
606 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
607 [SR] Add a minimum length setting for passwords #4589
608 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
609 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
610 Request to add a link to project pages for modules on Functionality page #4179
611 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
612 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
613 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
614 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
615 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
616 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
617 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
618 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
619 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
620 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
621 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
622 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
623 Reuse test prefixes instead of rebuilding them for each test #4353
624 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
625 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232
626 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
627 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
628 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
629 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
630 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
631 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
632 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
633 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
634 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
635 [UX] Provide a report page that lists all configured paths where files are being saved. #4585
636 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
637 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
638 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
639 Improve the styling of color input elements in the admin theme #4155
640 [DX] Implement hook_hook_info() to help organize module code #3024
641 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
642 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
643 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
644 Trim textfields? #6386
645 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
646 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
647 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
648 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
649 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
650 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
651 Allow default/required settings on multilingual ("Language") fields #4322
652 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
653 Config management diff: Rename "Old" and "New" to something more meaningful #3221
654 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
655 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
656 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
657 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
658 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
659 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
660 Views advanced settings: Only one page region, but still a drop-down. #852
661 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
662 [UX] Add a token-browser-like PHP date format helper dialog #4556
663 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
664 [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
665 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
666 CSS Architecture with SASS, SMACSS, and BEM #4129
667 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
668 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
669 Use config for color module palettes #2554
670 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
671 [D8] Autosave content #3426
672 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
673 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
674 Create a printable Status Report #5821
675 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
676 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
677 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
678 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
679 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
680 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
681 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
682 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
683 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
684 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
685 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
686 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
687 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
688 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
689 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
690 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
691 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
692 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
693 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
694 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
695 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
696 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
697 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
698 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
699 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
700 Double click prevention #6393

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