diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index dd4f793..56371de 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         <maven.compiler.release>21</maven.compiler.release>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 
-        <checker-qual.version>3.51.1</checker-qual.version>
+        <checker-qual.version>4.0.0</checker-qual.version>
         <codequality-maven-plugin.version>0.12.12</codequality-maven-plugin.version>
         <commons-lang3.version>3.19.0</commons-lang3.version>
         <flatten-maven-plugin.version>1.7.3</flatten-maven-plugin.version>