diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 68abcc38..d9852a22 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
                         <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                         <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
                         <!-- versions 10.x and above are unsupported by java 8-->
-                        <version>10.12.5</version>
+                        <version>10.12.6</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
                 <configuration>