diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index c136fa75..1b46950c
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
                     <dependency>
                         <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                         <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                        <version>6.8.1</version>
+                        <version>8.18</version>
                         <exclusions>
                             <!-- MCHECKSTYLE-156 -->
                             <exclusion>