Editing Enlightenment (window manager) (section)

=== E16 and before ===
The first version of Enlightenment was released by [[Carsten Haitzler]] in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The windows manager Enlightenment – MVPS.net Blog |url=https://www.mvps.net/docs/the-windows-manager-enlightenment/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Enlightenment DR16 |url=http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/e16&l=en |work=Enlightenment}}</ref> Originally, it was just a window manager before the addition of the EFL in E17.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Germain |first=Jack M. |date=2014-05-16 |title=Enlightenment Linux: It's Not What You Think |url=https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/enlightenment-linux-its-not-what-you-think-80456.html |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=LinuxInsider |language=en-US}}</ref>

With the release of E17 written with the EFL in 2012, Enlightenment went through a major rewrite, splitting the codebase into 0.16 (E16) and the versions after (E17). Some of the community decided to stay with the E16 codebase and continue development of this version, releasing under an independent versioning scheme from E17. It reached the 1.0 milestone and is still actively developed as of 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Enlightenment E16 |url=https://www.enlightenment.org/e16 |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=www.enlightenment.org}}</ref>