Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin – Upgrading Checkstyle at Runtime

Upgrading Checkstyle at Runtime

Maven Checkstyle plugin comes with a default Checkstyle version: for maven-checkstyle-plugin 3.6.0, 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>3.6.0</version>
 <dependencies>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
 <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
 <version>...choose your version...</version>
 </dependency>
 </dependencies>
 </plugin>
 </plugins>
 </pluginManagement>
 </build>
 ...
</project>