diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/beta.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/beta.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5aebb7ed8dd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/beta.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub
+, meson, ninja
+, pkgconfig, scdoc
+, wayland, libxkbcommon, pcre, json_c, dbus
+, pango, cairo, libinput, libcap, pam, gdk_pixbuf
+, wlroots, wayland-protocols
+, buildDocs ? true
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  pname = "sway";
+  version = "1.0-beta.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "swaywm";
+    repo = "sway";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "0h9kgrg9mh2acks63z72bw3lwff32pf2nb4i7i5xhd9i6l4gfnqa";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkgconfig meson ninja
+  ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional buildDocs scdoc;
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    wayland libxkbcommon pcre json_c dbus
+    pango cairo libinput libcap pam gdk_pixbuf
+    wlroots wayland-protocols
+  ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  mesonFlags = "-Dsway-version=${version}";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "i3-compatible window manager for Wayland";
+    homepage    = https://swaywm.org;
+    license     = licenses.mit;
+    platforms   = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ primeos synthetica ]; # Trying to keep it up-to-date.
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/default.nix
index 50614534f8e7..fb30f0073bfd 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/sway/default.nix
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "i3-compatible window manager for Wayland";
-    homepage    = http://swaywm.org;
+    homepage    = https://swaywm.org;
     license     = licenses.mit;
     platforms   = platforms.linux;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ primeos ]; # Trying to keep it up-to-date.
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 27175da249c3..2355c2085752 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -17199,7 +17199,9 @@ with pkgs;
   wlroots = callPackage ../development/libraries/wlroots { };
   rootston = wlroots.bin;
   orbment = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/orbment { };
+
   sway = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/sway { };
+  sway-beta = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/sway/beta.nix { };
 
   velox = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/velox {
     stConf = config.st.conf or null;