diff --git a/smart-metastore/pom.xml b/smart-metastore/pom.xml
index 9f41dfb9cf5..26424a6f030 100644
--- a/smart-metastore/pom.xml
+++ b/smart-metastore/pom.xml
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                         <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                        <version>6.19</version>
+                        <version>8.18</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
                 <configuration>