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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 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
902 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
903 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
904 [UX] Swap tab order of "Export" and "Import" config pages #2185
905 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
906 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
907 [UX] Better image style previews. #1772
908 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
909 Create "Current Node" block #5774
910 [UX] When uninstalling a module, list all things that will be lost (blocks, views, menus) in the confirmation page. #1624
911 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
912 Comment administration improvements #2919
913 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
914 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
915 [UX] Consider replacing the block title type drop-down with an always required (and unique) block title field. #2483
916 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
917 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
918 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
919 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
920 [UX] Layouts: Use icons within drop buttons on small/mobile screens #1974
921 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
922 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
923 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
924 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
925 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
926 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
927 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
928 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
929 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
930 Add support for tokens in the file field names and paths (File Field Paths module in core) #1440
931 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
932 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
933 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
934 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
935 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
936 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
937 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
938 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
939 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
940 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
941 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
942 Allow core libraries to be served via CDN #1593
943 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
944 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
945 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
946 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
947 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
948 [UX] Add the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" links to the operations dropbutton in the content type admin page and also the respective admin menu items. #1262
949 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
950 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
951 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
952 [D8] Autosave content #3426
953 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
954 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
955 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
956 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
957 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
958 Seventy two theme #5928
959 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
960 Cache settings via admin section #1434
961 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
962 Allow regions titles #2647
963 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
964 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
965 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
966 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
967 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
968 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
969 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
970 Trim textfields? #6386
971 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
972 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
973 [DX] Make views query output easier to read with indentation & line breaks #1590
974 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
975 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
976 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
977 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
978 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
979 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
980 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
981 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
982 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
983 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416

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