diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5b70931e8..ae0896d65 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@
             <dependency>
               <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
               <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-              <version>10.0</version>
+              <version>10.1</version>
             </dependency>
             <!-- replace with Plexus own checkstyle definitions -->
             <dependency>