diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1aa7c1a40..aa0c577bd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <build-alias>b000</build-alias>
     <wala.version>1.6.13-SNAPSHOT</wala.version>
-    <spotless.version>3.0.0</spotless.version>
+    <spotless.version>3.1.0</spotless.version>
     <maven.surefire.version>3.5.4</maven.surefire.version>
     <parallel>both</parallel>
     <logging.config.file>./logging.properties</logging.config.file>