Today Avid announced that the deadline to upgrade to Sibelius 8 from Sibelius 7.5 or earlier at an introductory price is being extended by one week to July 6, 2016.

Today Avid announced that the deadline to upgrade to Sibelius 8 from Sibelius 7.5 or earlier at an introductory price is being extended by one week to July 6, 2016.
Released today, Sibelius 8.4 includes the option of using more custom staff sizes in a Sibelius document. MusicXML import and export of the feature is supported. The Scorch iPad app has also been updated in tandem with the Sibelius 8.4 release.
Avid today released Sibelius 8.1.1, a minor update to the recent Sibelius 8.1 update. 8.1.1 addresses a few issues, improving the trackpad experience on Mac and fixing sluggishness in some areas of the program.
Sibelius 8.1 adds support for automatically handling rests in multiple voices, places ending lines correctly by default, and, for the first time, offers direct MP3 audio export.
Sibelius 8.0.1 is now available. This first update to Sibelius 8 includes a number of bug fixes and modest improvements, mainly in the areas of annotation features, pen support and high-res displays.
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The “new” Sibelius is now available alongside new perpetual and subscription license plans. The version number is Sibelius 8.0, but how does it compare to major releases of years past, and should you upgrade?
Although Sibelius 8 hasn’t officially been released by Avid yet, the popular music retailer Sweetwater has begun to offer it in its music retail catalog and web store.