Serif ceased further development of all 'Plus' products to focus efforts on their 'Affinity' product line. The last build issued to date is v19.0.2.22 from 28 April 2017. Serif announced that PagePlus X9 was to be the final PagePlus release. Version 8 was able to read data files created in previous versions 1 to 7. Despite the rewrite, at that time the program name was retained and the version number was simply incremented. Serif did a complete rewrite of the original program source code for the release of PagePlus version 8. Following this release, a new version of the product was released on a roughly annual basis. Three years later, in spring 1993, PagePlus 2 was released and provided full colour printing support. PagePlus was first launched in 1990 and was the first sub-£100 desktop publishing program for Windows 3.0. In June 2019 it was officially replaced by Serif with Affinity Publisher. The final release was PagePlus X9, which was released in November 2016. The first version was released in 1991 as the first commercial sub-£100 DTP package for Microsoft Windows. PagePlus was a desktop publishing (page layout) program developed by Serif for Microsoft Windows.
