diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3f0b23d..9a28d75 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
             <dependency>
               <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
               <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-              <version>6.19</version>
+              <version>8.18</version>
             </dependency>
           </dependencies>
         </plugin>