• many bugfixes (rt.cpan.org)
  
• added XML::LibXML::Pattern module and extended pattern support in Reader
  
• added XML::LibXML::XPathExpression module that can pre-compile an XPath
  expression
  
• reimplementation of the thread support (mostly by Tim Brody)
  
• structured errors XML::LibXML::Error
  
• memory leak fixes
  
• documentation fixes
  
• README - notes for building on Win32 (C.J. Madsen)