diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a5bada6bd..bd4879195 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@
     <!-- The RC version used in the staging repository URL. -->
     <commons.rc.version>RC1</commons.rc.version>
     <checkstyle.version>3.1.2</checkstyle.version>
-    <checkstyle.dep.version>8.41.1</checkstyle.dep.version>
+    <checkstyle.dep.version>8.42</checkstyle.dep.version>
 
     <commons.site.path>collections</commons.site.path>
     <commons.scmPubUrl>https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/production/commons/content/proper/commons-collections</commons.scmPubUrl>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 73415cd07..db57c380d 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@
       Bump checkstyle from 8.39 to 8.40 #212.
       Bump checkstyle from 8.40 to 8.41 #218.
       Bump checkstyle from 8.41 to 8.41.1 #222.
+      Bump checkstyle from 8.41.1 to 8.42 #234.
     </action>
     <action dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Chen, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Gary Gregory, Michael Osipov">
       Better NPE messages in CollectionUtils with Objects.requireNonNull #117.