Server downtime, and a new Launcher
Minecraft.net is suffering some difficulties at the moment, with the database getting overloaded. We’re working hard on fixing the problem.
In the meantime, I’ve uploaded the new game launcher, which you can download from here once the servers are back up and running.
The biggest updates in there are that it shows the latest update news, logs in over https, it asks if you want to update or keep playing on the current installed version, only downloads modified files.
