Can't open documents created in August

All my documents are saved in iCloud, but I no longer have access to my Pages documents from August. I can open everything from before and after August just fine, but whenever I try to open a document from August, Pages tells me that I have to update to get a newer version of Pages even though everything is up to date. I have used the same MacBook Pro and the same version of Pages for all my documents. It may have happend right after the 10.8.5 update, I'm not quite sure.

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