Bumped up the checkstyle version
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index db1f169..9a7ea70 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@
             <dependency>
               <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
               <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-              <version>8.16</version>
+              <version>8.18</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
               <groupId>org.apache.directory.buildtools</groupId>