diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-parent/pom.xml b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-parent/pom.xml
index a18eab72a2b..8e8e4f0ec88 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-parent/pom.xml
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
 						<dependency>
 							<groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
 							<artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-							<version>7.6</version>
+							<version>8.5</version>
 						</dependency>
 					</dependencies>
 				</plugin>
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-parent/src/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-parent/src/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
index b38767c9015..ee3413c2dc2 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-parent/src/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-parent/src/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@
 				value="io.restassured.RestAssured.*, org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.*, org.junit.Assert.*, org.junit.Assume.*, org.junit.internal.matchers.ThrowableMessageMatcher.*, org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*, org.hamcrest.Matchers.*, org.springframework.boot.configurationprocessor.ConfigurationMetadataMatchers.*, org.springframework.boot.configurationprocessor.TestCompiler.*, org.springframework.boot.test.autoconfigure.AutoConfigurationImportedCondition.*, org.mockito.Mockito.*, org.mockito.BDDMockito.*, org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.*, org.mockito.Matchers.*, org.springframework.restdocs.hypermedia.HypermediaDocumentation.*, org.springframework.restdocs.mockmvc.MockMvcRestDocumentation.*, org.springframework.restdocs.operation.preprocess.Preprocessors.*, org.springframework.restdocs.payload.PayloadDocumentation.*, org.springframework.restdocs.request.RequestDocumentation.*, org.springframework.restdocs.restassured3.operation.preprocess.RestAssuredPreprocessors.*, org.springframework.restdocs.restassured3.RestAssuredRestDocumentation.*, org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders.*, org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.*, org.springframework.security.test.web.servlet.request.SecurityMockMvcRequestPostProcessors.*, org.springframework.security.test.web.servlet.setup.SecurityMockMvcConfigurers.*, org.springframework.hateoas.mvc.ControllerLinkBuilder.linkTo, org.springframework.test.web.client.ExpectedCount.*, org.springframework.test.web.client.match.MockRestRequestMatchers.*, org.springframework.test.web.client.response.MockRestResponseCreators.*" />
 		</module>
 		<module name="com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.imports.IllegalImportCheck" >
-			<property name="illegalPkgs" value="com.google.common"/>
+			<property name="illegalPkgs" value="sun, org.apache.commons.(?!codec|compress|dbcp2|logging|pool2).*, com.google.common"/>
+			<property name="regexp" value="true"/>
 		</module>
 		<module name="com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.imports.RedundantImportCheck" />
 		<module name="com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.imports.UnusedImportsCheck">