diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e9481d7..25b4ce6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     <commons.scmPubCheckoutDirectory>site-content</commons.scmPubCheckoutDirectory>
 
     <checkstyle.plugin.version>3.1.2</checkstyle.plugin.version>
-    <checkstyle.version>8.44</checkstyle.version>
+    <checkstyle.version>8.45</checkstyle.version>
 
     <spotbugs.plugin.version>4.3.0</spotbugs.plugin.version>
     <spotbugs.impl.version>4.3.0</spotbugs.impl.version>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index d670a00..61e0574 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
     <action issue="TEXT-185" type="add" dev="ggregory" due-to="Larry West, Gary Gregory">Release Notes page hasn't been updated for 1.9 release yet.</action>
     <action                  type="add" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Add StrBuilder.isNotEmpty().</action>
     <!-- UPDATE -->
-    <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">Update checkstyle from 8.34 to 8.44, #141, #168, #182, #188, #193, #201 #208 #211 #228 #235 #245.</action>
+    <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">Update checkstyle from 8.34 to 8.45, #141, #168, #182, #188, #193, #201 #208 #211 #228 #235 #245 #253.</action>
     <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory, Dependabot">Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.0.0 to 4.3.0, #144, #150, #167, #176, #194, #210, #223, #250.</action>
     <action                  type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">Update mockito-inline from 3.4.4 to 3.11.2, #143 #148 #149 #152 #153 #154 #158 #159 #166 #177 #180 #187 #195 #197 #207 #216 #231 #236 #237 #243.</action>
     <action                  type="update" dev="kinow" due-to="Dependabot">Bump junit-jupiter from 5.6.2 to 5.7.2 #163 #204 #232.</action>