Upgrading Checkstyle at Runtime
Maven Checkstyle plugin comes with a default Checkstyle version: for maven-checkstyle-plugin 3.5.0
, Checkstyle 9.3 is used by default.
Given Checkstyle generally keeps good compatibility between versions, you can override the version used at runtime to benefit from Checkstyle latest bugfixes:
<project> ... <build> <pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.5.0</version> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId> <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId> <version>...choose your version...</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </plugin> </plugins> </pluginManagement> </build> ... </project>