diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml
index 214b8ce3782d..c3bd0e3973ff 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
             <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-            <version>6.15</version>
+            <version>6.16</version>
           </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <executions>