diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 00353061e..4d171fccf 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
             <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-            <version>6.19</version>
+            <version>7.0</version>
           </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <!-- Specifying configuration here will take effect on the execution of "mvn checkstyle:checkstyle",