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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 [UX] Auto Updates for security/modules #414
902 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
903 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
904 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
905 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
906 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
907 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
908 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
909 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
910 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
911 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
912 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
913 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
914 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
915 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
916 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
917 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
918 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
919 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
920 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
921 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
922 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
923 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
924 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
925 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
926 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
927 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
928 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
929 Custom Block contextual link #4390
930 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
931 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
932 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
933 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
934 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
935 Telemetry: Collect the Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) #5449
936 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
937 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
938 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
939 Filter module: Add a data-path-id for internal links to make it easier to track and update internal paths #5004
940 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
941 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
942 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
943 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
944 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
945 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
946 Search terms along with nodes #3850
947 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
948 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
949 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
950 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
951 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
952 As view fields, titles for Pageless nodes show links even for those without access. #5214
953 [UX] Views: Make the "Label for "Any" value" a text field and have it be configurable per view and per exposed filter within each view. #2033
954 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
955 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
956 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
957 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
958 Easier/better way to revert Views' settings #4368
959 [UX] CKEditor configuration: Add a label to the "button separator" button #3666
960 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
961 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
962 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
963 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
964 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
965 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
966 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
967 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
968 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
969 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
970 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
971 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
972 [SEO][WP] Text formats: Introduce new filter to enable native browser-level loading=lazy attribute for images added to text areas. #4587
973 [SR] Better/safer file type validation #3830
974 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
975 [UX] Add path settings to file pages #4176
976 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
977 'Manage files' view sometimes shows incorrect filename #3507
978 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
979 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
980 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
981 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
982 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
983 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
984 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
985 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
986 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292

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