diff --git a/devstudio/pom.xml b/devstudio/pom.xml
index 20ba9e2b..c0c712bf 100644
--- a/devstudio/pom.xml
+++ b/devstudio/pom.xml
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
             <dependency>
               <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
               <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-              <version>6.17</version>
+              <version>8.18</version>
             </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <executions>