Thanks for the info. I have been running the minleon check for update and it still does not show anything even today. I also have never received an email or anything from minleon about a new release even though I am a registered owner of 2.5. Strange marketing.
The update must not work because 2.8 requires a new license, ie. and upgrade rather than an update. I have 2.5 advanced, but only played with it. I will have think about spending the upgrade money, but since I do not know if I would use it or not at this point I think I will hold off for now. I will be using a lot of nutcracker effects and everything I read indicates it can be a pain to use them with LSP. Also not sure if I have time to convert all my existing sequences which is why I never converted to 2.5, I was having to much trouble getting them to work. I have seen better techniques for importing now, but not sure if I want to go thru the process at this stage of the season.