diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 30a43d7..b1ff636 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
     <maven.compiler.showWarnings>true</maven.compiler.showWarnings>
 
     <!-- Checkstyle and maven-checkstyle-plugin -->
-    <version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>6.8</version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>
+    <version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>8.29</version.com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle>
     <!-- the default value pointing at checkstyle.xml in mycontroller-build-tools -->
     <checkstyle.configLocation>mycontroller-checkstyle/checkstyle.xml</checkstyle.configLocation>
     <checkstyle.consoleOutput>true</checkstyle.consoleOutput>