diff --git a/project/build.properties b/project/build.properties
index 03438f6558abeae10453dd143d61a0afe1456232..839f5fbb0c34721bdb79c07ce77a0314ad5fc4c9 100644
--- a/project/build.properties
+++ b/project/build.properties
@@ -14,7 +14,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-
-# Note: If you change the sbt version please also change the sbt download
-# script sbt/sbt
 sbt.version=0.12.4
diff --git a/sbt/sbt b/sbt/sbt
index 2c19987b92f2e11d7429daa51a6498e4248433cc..22672f234646157223a35f4abdce586b4984f6f7 100755
--- a/sbt/sbt
+++ b/sbt/sbt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This script launches sbt for this project. If present it uses the system 
 # version of sbt. If there is no system version of sbt it attempts to download
 # sbt locally.
-SBT_VERSION=0.12.4
+SBT_VERSION=`awk -F "=" '/sbt\\.version/ {print $2}' ./project/build.properties`
 URL1=http://typesafe.artifactoryonline.com/typesafe/ivy-releases/org.scala-sbt/sbt-launch/${SBT_VERSION}/sbt-launch.jar
 URL2=http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/ivy-releases/org.scala-sbt/sbt-launch/${SBT_VERSION}/sbt-launch.jar
 JAR=sbt/sbt-launch-${SBT_VERSION}.jar