It looks like Google Places made a couple minor changes today to their dashboard interface. Besides a slight design change incorporating good use of background contrast, the big modifications were:
1) Showing some statistics right in the dashboard
Subtle but decent improvements nonetheless. Google also updated their help document to reflect these changes. As I mentioned when the new dashboard first came out, I still wish they would integrate your Google Places pre-click data with your Google Analytics account (similar to AdWords and AdSense). Fingers crossed.