diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9f646eedc..637e0dcd3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
     <!-- Checkstyle plugin -->
     <version.org.apache.maven-checkstyle-plugin>3.4.0</version.org.apache.maven-checkstyle-plugin>
-    <version.com.puppycrawl.checkstyle>9.3</version.com.puppycrawl.checkstyle>
+    <version.com.puppycrawl.checkstyle>10.21.1</version.com.puppycrawl.checkstyle>
     <version.org.wildfly.checkstyle-config>1.0.8.Final</version.org.wildfly.checkstyle-config>
   </properties>