diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e6859983..ad0bd136 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
             <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-            <version>8.12</version>
+            <version>8.18</version>
           </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <executions>