Compared to 0.7.1, I don't see any exciting features in rakudo has been implemented.
There's nothing really exciting, but some quite useful stuff, like the is export trait, and the Str.trans method, which can now handle regexes and closures (Thanks to cjfields).
Does parrot 1.0 mean Rakudo 1.0?
No. I think that a release goal for Parrot is to have two languages in a usable state, and I guess that it'll not be Perl 6, because Perl 6 is just too large a language for that. (My best guess is that it's <tcl lua cardinal>.pick(2) (cardinal is the ruby implementation on top of parrot).