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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 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
902 Allow anonymous users to use a SESSION variable to set timezone #4612
903 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
904 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
905 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
906 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
907 [DX][D8] Allow config files to have dependencies #4188
908 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
909 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
910 One click install for digitalocean #5628
911 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
912 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
913 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
914 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
915 Cache settings via admin section #1434
916 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
917 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
918 [UX] When there is only one menu item in a section, don't list #4386
919 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
920 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
921 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
922 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
923 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
924 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
925 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
926 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
927 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
928 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
929 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
930 [UX] Have a "Contact" menu item be enabled and added to the primary navigation by default when enabling contact.module. #1572
931 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
932 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
933 [SR] Add a minimum length setting for passwords #4589
934 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
935 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
936 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
937 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
938 Request to add a link to project pages for modules on Functionality page #4179
939 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
940 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
941 [UX] CKeditor: Allow the Styles dropdown to use tag names (for easy use of the <small> tag) #2980
942 [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
943 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
944 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
945 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
946 Add a simple way in core to define private and public access for nodes/entities. #1407
947 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
948 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
949 Display default views on a separate tab #4369
950 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
951 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
952 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
953 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
954 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
955 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
956 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
957 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
958 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
959 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
960 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
961 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
962 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
963 Prepend the content type name in the "Permissions" vtab permission names when creating a content type. #1539
964 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
965 [UX] Provide a report page that lists all configured paths where files are being saved. #4585
966 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
967 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
968 Improve the styling of color input elements in the admin theme #4155
969 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
970 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
971 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
972 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
973 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
974 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
975 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
976 [D8] Port and merge Local Image Input Filter in core #1384
977 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
978 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
979 Reuse test prefixes instead of rebuilding them for each test #4353
980 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
981 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
982 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
983 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
984 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
985 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
986 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791

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