Less than a year after launching the new help forums, Google has redesigned them. The main differences are:

Forum landing page, displaying categories by default and not topicsCleaning up the thread listing pagesRemoved the “announcements” sectionOther misc changes

Here is a screen shot of the new look:

I also have a screen shot of the old thread view page, which shows the major difference between the two:

If you need to see a full size view, see here.

I personally like the thread view, I just wish they would show a view for answers given by profile.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help (but all the new help forums were redesigned).