Play 2.3, activator does not work

I downloaded Play 2.3 from the official site. There was an archive with 3 files:

activator
activator-launch-1.2.0.jar
activator.bat

I extracted them into /Users/vbezhenar/Applications/activator-1.2.0-minimal and added this path to $PATH.

Now I type:

% pwd                                                      
/Users/vbezhenar/Projects/test/play
% which activator                                          
/Users/vbezhenar/Applications/activator-1.2.0-minimal/activator
% activator new p1 play-scala

and get error

unresolved dependency: com.typesafe.activator#activator-launcher;1.2.0: not found
Error during sbt execution: Error retrieving required libraries
  (see /Users/vbezhenar/.sbt/boot/update.log for complete log)
Error: Could not retrieve activator-launcher 1.2.0

File .sbt/boot/update.log - http://pastebin.com/3b5LAz7X

I don't understand why it tries to download this launcher if it's already in the distribution. Is it bug or I did something wrong?

I tried to remove ~/.sbt ~/.ivy2 but it didn't help.

Solution

This seem to work now. Is it possible it was a transient problem with the repository server: https://twitter.com/scala_sbt/status/473080577474981888

If anyone else is seeing this please let us know on the activator issue tracker: https://github.com/typesafehub/activator/issues