diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8a7cba29c908..20126fd44a48 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                     <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                     <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                    <version>12.0.1</version>
+                    <version>12.1.0</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
             </plugin>