diff --git a/modules/SilkSpawners/pom.xml b/modules/SilkSpawners/pom.xml
index 6950ae16..f633f283 100644
--- a/modules/SilkSpawners/pom.xml
+++ b/modules/SilkSpawners/pom.xml
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.0</version>
+        <version>3.6.0</version>
         <dependencies>
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 13cdb12c..2d00c522 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.0</version>
+        <version>3.6.0</version>
         <dependencies>
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>