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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 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
902 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
903 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
904 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
905 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
906 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
907 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
908 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
909 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
910 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
911 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
912 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
913 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
914 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
915 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
916 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
917 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
918 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
919 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
920 Mobile first approach theme #4131
921 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
922 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
923 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
924 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
925 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
926 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
927 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
928 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
929 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
930 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
931 Add state_override function to core #4725
932 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
933 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
934 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
935 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
936 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
937 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
938 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
939 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
940 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
941 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
942 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
943 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
944 Create "Current Node" block #5774
945 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
946 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
947 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
948 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
949 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
950 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
951 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
952 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
953 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
954 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
955 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
956 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
957 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
958 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
959 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
960 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
961 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
962 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
963 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
964 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
965 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
966 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
967 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
968 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
969 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
970 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
971 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
972 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
973 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
974 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
975 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
976 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
977 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
978 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
979 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
980 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
981 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360

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