diff --git a/buildSrc/build.gradle b/buildSrc/build.gradle
index dbeb45f..36e22b4 100644
--- a/buildSrc/build.gradle
+++ b/buildSrc/build.gradle
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ dependencies {
     implementation "com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle:12.1.0"
     implementation "io.freefair.gradle:lombok-plugin:9.0.0"
     implementation "io.github.boolivar.jdoctest.jdoc-spock:io.github.boolivar.jdoctest.jdoc-spock.gradle.plugin:0.11.0"
-    implementation "net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-java:7.17.0"
+    implementation "net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-java:7.18.0"
 }
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