diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2f30e1f..83886e2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                         <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                        <version>6.18</version>
+                        <version>8.18</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
                 <executions>