diff --git a/paper-api/pom.xml b/paper-api/pom.xml
index 6b8339c4b..2cba38deb 100644
--- a/paper-api/pom.xml
+++ b/paper-api/pom.xml
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
                             <dependency>
                                 <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                                 <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                                <version>9.1</version>
+                                <version>8.45.1</version>
                             </dependency>
                         </dependencies>
                     </plugin>