diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 11b37f8..040278a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         <scala.libversion>2.11</scala.libversion>
         <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
         <maven.checkstyle.version>2.16</maven.checkstyle.version>
-        <com.puppycrawl.tools.version>6.9</com.puppycrawl.tools.version>
+        <com.puppycrawl.tools.version>8.29</com.puppycrawl.tools.version>
         <cassandra.version>3.0.10</cassandra.version>
         <spark.version>2.1.0</spark.version>
         <!-- we have an external dependency on "com.holdenkarau" for running spark tests for which