diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 92e04f55c5..db71e7134b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                         <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                        <version>8.8</version>
+                        <version>8.29</version>
                     </dependency>
                     <!-- <dependency> -->
                     <!--     <groupId>org.neo4j.build</groupId> -->