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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 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
602 [DX][D8] Provide a mechanism to deprecate permissions #5030
603 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
604 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
605 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
606 [A11Y] Add `role="main"` attribute to primary content region in each Layout template #5610
607 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
608 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
609 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
610 [UX] Admin Bar: Add a single, centralized point of entry for adding content, files, user accounts etc. #5884
611 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
612 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
613 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
614 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
615 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
616 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
617 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
618 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
619 [UX] Menu link items should be kept in sync with their respective content titles #4759
620 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
621 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
622 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
623 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
624 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
625 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
626 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
627 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
628 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
629 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
630 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
631 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
632 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
633 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
634 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
635 Menu router refactoring #2400
636 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
637 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
638 One click install for digitalocean #5628
639 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
640 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
641 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
642 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
643 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
644 Mobile first approach theme #4131
645 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
646 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
647 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
648 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
649 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
650 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
651 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
652 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
653 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
654 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
655 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
656 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
657 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
658 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
659 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
660 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
661 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
662 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
663 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
664 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
665 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
666 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
667 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
668 [UX] Automatically update the "Admin Content" view to include language field and exposed filter when more than one language is enabled for the site. #1625
669 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
670 [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
671 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
672 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
673 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
674 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
675 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
676 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
677 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
678 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
679 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
680 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
681 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
682 Add a new core theme #5175
683 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
684 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
685 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
686 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
687 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
688 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
689 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
690 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
691 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
692 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
693 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
694 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
695 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
696 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
697 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
698 Apply image style to default picture #4976
699 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
700 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608

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