diff --git a/checkstyle.xml b/checkstyle.xml
index d7917523a..37934c4a6 100644
--- a/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/checkstyle.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@
     <property name="eachLine" value="true"/>
   </module>
 
+  <module name="LineLength">
+    <property name="max" value="100"/>
+    <property name="ignorePattern" value="^package.*|^import.*|a href|href|http://|https://|ftp://"/>
+  </module>
+
   <module name="TreeWalker">
     <module name="OuterTypeFilename"/>
     <module name="IllegalTokenText">
@@ -46,10 +51,6 @@
       <property name="allowByTailComment" value="true"/>
       <property name="allowNonPrintableEscapes" value="true"/>
     </module>
-    <module name="LineLength">
-      <property name="max" value="100"/>
-      <property name="ignorePattern" value="^package.*|^import.*|a href|href|http://|https://|ftp://"/>
-    </module>
     <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
     <module name="OneTopLevelClass"/>
     <module name="NoLineWrap"/>
@@ -239,12 +240,11 @@
           value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF, VARIABLE_DEF"/>
     </module>
     <module name="JavadocMethod">
-      <property name="scope" value="public"/>
+      <property name="accessModifiers" value="public"/>
       <property name="allowMissingParamTags" value="true"/>
-      <property name="allowMissingThrowsTags" value="true"/>
       <property name="allowMissingReturnTag" value="true"/>
       <property name="allowedAnnotations" value="Override, Test"/>
-      <property name="allowThrowsTagsForSubclasses" value="true"/>
+      <property name="validateThrows" value="true"/>
     </module>
     <module name="MissingJavadocMethod">
       <property name="scope" value="public"/>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 33eaec2dd..7db368c1d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@
               <dependency>
                 <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                 <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                <version>8.23</version>
+                <version>9.0.1</version>
               </dependency>
             </dependencies>
             <configuration>
diff --git a/samples/dailymotion-simple-cmdline-sample/pom.xml b/samples/dailymotion-simple-cmdline-sample/pom.xml
index 969cb37c7..02bc39a44 100644
--- a/samples/dailymotion-simple-cmdline-sample/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/dailymotion-simple-cmdline-sample/pom.xml
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
               <dependency>
                 <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                 <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                <version>8.23</version>
+                <version>9.0.1</version>
               </dependency>
             </dependencies>
             <configuration>