Wayback 0.1 released - App Developer Magazine

The Wayback development team has released version 0.1, a significant milestone for this Wayland-based X11 compatibility layer designed to replace Xorg. This alpha-quality software enables traditional X11 desktop environments to run under Wayland while reducing maintenance burden for Linux distributions.

Despite current limitations like missing multi-monitor support and DPMS control, Wayback 0.1 shows promising progress with modular architecture improvements and community contributions. The project has migrated to freedesktop.org, established proper packaging across multiple distributions, and implemented standardized coding practices.

• Already suitable for daily use by users with simple requirements who can tolerate occasional bugs
• Features modular system with wayback-compositor, Xwayback interface, and wayback-session components
• Available in Alpine Linux, Nix, Arch Linux AUR, and Fedora repositories with active community development
• Welcomes contributions through IRC channel #wayback on Libera.Chat or Matrix for continued development