I cannot open iPhoto library without upgrading

I think I know the reason: There was recently an upgrade of Aperture, which I have purchased, which asked my to upgrade the iPhoto library. Anyway, iPhoto now says I need to upgrade iPhoto to open my library. And the only upgrade I see has to be paid for.
Can anyone confirm this?
Isn't it strange to force such an upgrade on customers?
Is there a work-around to this problem?

If Aperture is using your iPhoto library, you probably have got iPhoto '11, so you can upgrade iPhoto for free. Anyway, it's better to check this.
Open a Finder window, choose Applications in the sidebar and you should see iPhoto. Right-click iPhoto and choose Get Info, so you should see the iPhoto version. If it's 9.x.x, you can upgrade iPhoto free of charge.
Open the Mac App Store, go to Updates and install iPhoto 9.5 for free. If you don't see the update, try switching the OS X language to English in System Preferences > Language & Region, and restarting

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