diff --git a/checkstyle/pom.xml b/checkstyle/pom.xml
index 1458fb4e63..1436c5eb73 100644
--- a/checkstyle/pom.xml
+++ b/checkstyle/pom.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
             <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-            <version>6.15</version>
+            <version>8.29</version>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>com.sun</groupId>