How to upgrade lwjgl within IntelliJ + LibGDX

Engines, Libraries and Tools
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Hello! Can someone help me understand how one can upgrade to the latest version of lwjgl3? I’ve tried to follow several online guides however they all seem to be outdated. I feel like there is an easy way to do it via the gradle file, but I’m not quite sure on what I need to do. Here is the current structure of my gradle file:


buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/" }
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
    }
}

allprojects {
    apply plugin: "eclipse"
    apply plugin: "idea"

    version = '1.0'
    ext {
        appName = "Game"
        gdxVersion = '1.9.4'
        roboVMVersion = '2.2.0'
        box2DLightsVersion = '1.4'
        ashleyVersion = '1.7.0'
        aiVersion = '1.8.0'
    }

    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/" }
        maven { url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/" }
    }
}

project(":desktop") {
    apply plugin: "java"


    dependencies {
        compile project(":core")
        compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-backend-lwjgl3:$gdxVersion"
        compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-platform:$gdxVersion:natives-desktop"
        compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-box2d-platform:$gdxVersion:natives-desktop"
        compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-freetype-platform:$gdxVersion:natives-desktop"
        compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-tools:$gdxVersion"

    }
}

project(":core") {
    apply plugin: "java"


    dependencies {
        compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx:$gdxVersion"
        compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-box2d:$gdxVersion"
        compile "com.badlogicgames.box2dlights:box2dlights:$box2DLightsVersion"
        compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-freetype:$gdxVersion"
    }
}

tasks.eclipse.doLast {
    delete ".project"
}

I seem to have gotten lwjgl3 to work, but I’m not actually sure if it’s currently up to date? I’m able to create a lwjgl3 object inside of my DesktopLauncher as such:


public class DesktopLauncher {

	public static void main (String[] arg) {

		Lwjgl3ApplicationConfiguration config = new Lwjgl3ApplicationConfiguration();
		new Lwjgl3Application(new Game(), config);
       }
}

However overall I’m a little confused about lwjgl because lines such as this,


        Gdx.app.log("LOG: ", "LWJGL Version " + Version.getVersion() + " is working.");

lead to a nullpointerexception, so I’m assuming my lwjgl import isn’t actually there. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!