It certainly does not automatically reload on configuration file change. This simply means you can have hitless reloads - change your configuration, reload HAP

It certainly does not automatically reload on configuration file change. This simply means you can have hitless reloads - change your configuration, reload HAProxy, and you will drop zero incoming connections during the reload time. Other methods previously existed to do this without having to first drain traffic, but they were both unwieldy and still tended to have a performance impact.