In time for some weekend testing, Wayback 0.2 is now available for this [1]X11 compatibility layer leveraging Wayland components . Wayback 0.2 remains at an alpha quality state but more functionality is now wired up.

Wayback 0.2 brings a few fixes and new functionality as a minor update over [2]Wayback 0.1 from just over one week ago:

- wayback-session now uses &argv[1] instead of &argv[optind], this fixes it looping when running wayback-session sesscmd

- Wayback commands now show the version in the command output

- Handle child processes without SIGTERM

- Wayback is now on Gentoo GURU (gui-wm/wayback) and Nixpkgs (wayback-x11 in unstable)

Downloads and more details on the Wayback 0.2 release via [3]wayback.freedesktop.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-FreeDesktop.org

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-0.1-Released

[3] https://wayback.freedesktop.org/news/2025/07/31/wayback-0.2-released/