The last Rapicorn snapshot had a couple build and compiler issues which could be fixed meanwhile, so here is the "real" 0.1.2 release:
It’s still a technology preview release with known issues, nevertheless useful to look at. The release NEWS:
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added Image support for PNG images.
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added HSlider, VSlider, Arrow, dot-grid.
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added ScrollArea.
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added Adjustments.
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added command system allowing on-click properties.
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added reset logic to recover from stale event situations.
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added requisition tuning to allow iterative size allocations.
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added event grabbing.
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added MainLoop.
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added Thread-per-Window paradigm.
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added Viewport abstraction of drawing backends.
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added color schemes.
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added simple function Evaluator for XML properties.
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added Markup to labels.
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added focus handling for Items.
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added TextEditor prototype.
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added Region to handle rectangle arrays.
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added partial screen updates.
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removed libcairo/libpixman dependency.
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overhauled Table shrinking logic.
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upgraded Birnet library.
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instabilities/hangs upon main loop exit.
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possible build issues with g++ versions < 3.4.6.