diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fd8fe25..2ef8ab3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
       <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-      <version>5.6</version>
+      <version>6.16.1</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>