diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 979f89c7a..9de035c4b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
     <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
     <commons.encoding>UTF-8</commons.encoding>
 
-    <checkstyle.version>3.1.1</checkstyle.version>
+    <checkstyle.version>3.1.2</checkstyle.version>
     <checkstyle.header.file>${basedir}/LICENSE-header.txt</checkstyle.header.file>
     <checkstyle.resourceExcludes>LICENSE.txt, NOTICE.txt, **/maven-archiver/pom.properties</checkstyle.resourceExcludes>