diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ba889f64..fe7615e0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
     <hadoop.version>${hadoop-three.version}</hadoop.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.25</slf4j.version>
     <log4j.version>1.2.17</log4j.version>
-    <checkstyle.version>8.28</checkstyle.version>
+    <checkstyle.version>8.29</checkstyle.version>
     <maven.checkstyle.version>3.1.2</maven.checkstyle.version>
     <surefire.version>3.0.0-M5</surefire.version>
     <enforcer.version>3.0.0</enforcer.version>