Error message: document can't be opened

Documents stored in Pages app show this error message when I try to open them. Also have had documents disappear from Pages.

I have reason to believe this is due to a bug with the new version of Pages.
I use Pages on my iPad for many of my main documents. All was well until the 1.6.1 (557) update a couple of days ago. Then, I started to encounter the "This document can't be opened" message with my larger documents.
Not only could/can I not open them on my iPad, but I could not download the affected Pages docs in iCloud. It gave me an error. As such, I also could not forward them as email attachments. (It told me the Filename was (Null).)
Fortuitously, I have access to another iPad with an older version of Pages. I configured it to use my iCloud ID and synced my documents. I could then open the affected documents using the older version of Pages and archive them. To "migrate" them from the older version of Pages (on my older iPad) to the newer version (on my iPad2), I had to send them to myself as .doc format email attachment. Of course, this has messed up with some formatting, but I can get to my text, at least
If someone at Apple wants to contact me, I can forward samples for your investigation, but I really think you messed up on this from a QA perspective. I came very close to believing my documents were corrupt when they obviously *are not*. All evidence supports that it is an file incompatibility issue between the two versions of the App.
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