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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
901 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
902 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
903 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
904 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
905 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
906 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
907 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
908 Apply image style to default picture #4976
909 Create "Current Node" block #5774
910 [UX] Swap tab order of "Export" and "Import" config pages #2185
911 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
912 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
913 [UX] Better image style previews. #1772
914 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
915 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
916 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
917 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
918 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
919 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
920 Add a new core theme #5175
921 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
922 [UX] Consider replacing the block title type drop-down with an always required (and unique) block title field. #2483
923 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
924 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
925 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
926 [UX] Layouts: Use icons within drop buttons on small/mobile screens #1974
927 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
928 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
929 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
930 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
931 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
932 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
933 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
934 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
935 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
936 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
937 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
938 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
939 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
940 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
941 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
942 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
943 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
944 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
945 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
946 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
947 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
948 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
949 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
950 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
951 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
952 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
953 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
954 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
955 Seventy two theme #5928
956 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
957 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
958 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
959 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
960 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
961 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
962 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
963 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
964 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
965 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
966 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
967 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
968 [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
969 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
970 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
971 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
972 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
973 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
974 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
975 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
976 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
977 Content creation page cleanup #202
978 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
979 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
980 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
981 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
982 Rename default Contact form category #4703

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