I received mine today. There's only one difference that I can vs. those made a few years back.
The liner on the non lockbar side appears to be a lockbar side liner that the lockbar was cut away. This isn't necessarily a big deal structurally, but it leaves a good bit of the brass spacer unsupported inside the liner. I guess this should have been addressed at the factory by making the spacer smaller than it originally was, or more properly, by using the correct liner.
It's still a tank of a knife, and I don't see this as causing any trouble down the road (but I'm no knifemaker, so I could be wrong.)