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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 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
602 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
603 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
604 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
605 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
606 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
607 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
608 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
609 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
610 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
611 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
612 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
613 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
614 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
615 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
616 Create a printable Status Report #5821
617 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
618 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
619 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
620 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
621 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
622 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
623 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
624 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
625 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
626 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
627 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
628 Menu router refactoring #2400
629 Double click prevention #6393
630 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
631 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
632 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
633 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
634 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
635 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
636 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
637 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
638 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
639 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
640 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
641 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
642 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
643 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
644 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
645 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
646 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
647 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
648 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
649 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
650 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
651 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
652 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
653 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
654 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
655 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
656 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
657 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
658 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
659 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
660 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
661 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
662 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
663 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
664 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
665 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
666 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
667 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
668 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
669 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
670 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
671 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
672 Allow regions titles #2647
673 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
674 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
675 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
676 Add hook_field_schema_alter() #6208
677 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
678 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
679 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
680 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
681 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002
682 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
683 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
684 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
685 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
686 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
687 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
688 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
689 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
690 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
691 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
692 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
693 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
694 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213
695 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
696 Search terms along with nodes #3850
697 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
698 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
699 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
700 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060

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