diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8302077d5..b96f0d7f3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     <checkstyle.plugin.version>2.9.1</checkstyle.plugin.version>
     <checkstyle.consoleOutput>true</checkstyle.consoleOutput>
     <checkstyle.failOnError>true</checkstyle.failOnError>
-    <version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>6.18</version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>
+    <version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>8.29</version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>
     <compile.source>1.7</compile.source>
 
     <!--<version.cluster>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version.cluster>-->