diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0de1f993e..f467afc3b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.6.3</version>
+        <version>3.2.1</version>
         <dependencies>
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>