diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 6e2326393b8..4ea0f08a984 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ dependencies {
     testImplementation "org.testfx:testfx-junit5:4.0.17-alpha-SNAPSHOT"
     testImplementation "org.hamcrest:hamcrest-library:2.2"
 
-    checkstyle 'com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle:8.37'
+    checkstyle 'com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle:8.38'
     xjc group: 'org.glassfish.jaxb', name: 'jaxb-xjc', version: '2.3.3'
     jython 'org.python:jython-standalone:2.7.2'
 }