sbt dist included in Hello World projects is old

[eed3si9n]

This is more of a bug report to Example Code Service (https://example.lightbend.com/) than Play per se, but it affects Play new users mostly.

Play Version

2.8.2

API

Scala

Operating System

macOS

JDK

openjdk version "1.8.0_232"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (AdoptOpenJDK)(build 1.8.0_232-b09)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (AdoptOpenJDK)(build 25.232-b09, mixed mode)

Expected Behavior

1. Go to https://www.playframework.com/getting-started or https://developer.lightbend.com/start/?group=play, and download a sample Play project via "Create a project for me."
2. The sbt distribution included in the zip is the latest stable version.

Actual Behavior

1. Go to https://www.playframework.com/getting-started or https://developer.lightbend.com/start/?group=play, and download a sample Play project via "Create a project for me."
2. It looks like the sbt distribution included into the created build is sbt 0.13.11 from 2016.

note

Even though project/build.properties dictate the sbt artifact version, sbt shell and batch scripts would not have any of the updates, for example fixes related to parsing modern Java versions. I think this results to occasional confused sbt bug reports saying they can't run sbt on JDK 11. Not a very good out-of-box experience.

[PromanSEW]

Already fixed
https://example.lightbend.com/v1/download/play-samples-play-java-hello-world-tutorial has sbt 1.6.2

[ihostage]

Fixed by playframework/play-samples#158

[ihostage]

Thanks for notification, @PromanSEW!