diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index f39bd3aa1..c23e7e50c 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ configure(project.fineractJavaProjects) {
     // https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/checkstyle_plugin.html
     dependencies {
         checkstyle 'com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle:8.44'
-        checkstyle 'com.github.sevntu-checkstyle:sevntu-checks:1.39.0'
+        checkstyle 'com.github.sevntu-checkstyle:sevntu-checks:1.40.0'
     }
 
     // Configuration for JaCoCo code coverage task