Got an email, 50% discount for eagle subscription. Expires Jul 16. After discount it is USD 250 for one year. (Discount is only good for 1 year subscription, i.e. you can't buy 3 years or 2 years, or monthly, with the discount).
Question, if the format of the Eagle 8 files is not radically different from Eagle 6, that is not a bad proposition. Once this expires I can always fall back on v.6 and reconsider my options then.