diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1e4877347..89b1c0ac1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -643,7 +643,6 @@
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>${checkstyle.version}</version>
         <dependencies>
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>