http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/perlbal/2004-October/000010.html
Changes since 1.00: -- when internally redirecting a URL, perlbal advertises that it supports persisent HTTP connections now, and caches those sockets for 5 seconds. (not configurable) useful under load, otherwise you waste all local ports on a machine -- ditch dependence on IO::SendFile. do it ourselves (1 line) with perl's syscall function -- add doc/* and conf/* to MANIFEST file
That last item is probably the most important to you, the potentially interested user: I accidentally forgot to include the example config files in the last release.