No, they're pretty much the same as they always were. I bought one recently to replace the one that I lost a few years ago. There is no difference, it's the same parts etc... Identical. They work great.

Silca (company) was sold last year to a guy in Indianapolis. He's apparently designing a new pump that meets the brick s**thouse standard. He's redesigned the chuck and the washer to be pretty incredible and really lifetime sort of stuff so it will be interesting to see what the new pump looks like.

That said, my new favorite is the SKS Rennkompressor. The thing meets the brick s***house standard by far. All parts are replaceable and have been for 40 years by SKS. The chuck works great and it's just a solid deal - great for traveling. I'd been looking at these for years (lots of race mechanics use them) and never got around to buying them.

Truthfully - these two pumps are head and shoulders above the rest. I've had Lezyne pumps which are pretty good, but they are not in the same class with these two pumps. They just aren't. On top of that, the top of the line Lezyne is something like $100 and the SKS Rennkompressor is $53. Why bother looking at anything else? It's better, it's got parts forever and *everything* can be repaired and it's half the price.

J.