diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6321a105..1e4e1e1e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
             <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-            <version>6.19</version>
+            <version>8.18</version>
           </dependency>
         </dependencies>
       </plugin>