diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 99bc4c2..bc5e910 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
     <maven.compiler.showWarnings>true</maven.compiler.showWarnings>
 
     <!-- Checkstyle and maven-checkstyle-plugin -->
-    <version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>6.13</version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>
+    <version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>8.29</version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>
     <!-- checkstyle.xml location in the source tree -->
     <checkstyle.consoleOutput>true</checkstyle.consoleOutput>
     <checkstyle.failOnError>true</checkstyle.failOnError>