diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 68e5161cca..6eb70f9a61 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt"    % "sbt-ghpages"            % "0.5.3")
 addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt"    % "sbt-site"               % "0.8.1")
 addSbtPlugin("org.tpolecat"        % "tut-plugin"             % "0.4.0")
 addSbtPlugin("pl.project13.scala"  % "sbt-jmh"                % "0.2.3")
-addSbtPlugin("org.scalastyle"      %% "scalastyle-sbt-plugin" % "0.6.0")
+addSbtPlugin("org.scalastyle"      %% "scalastyle-sbt-plugin" % "0.8.0")
 addSbtPlugin("org.scoverage"       % "sbt-scoverage"          % "1.2.0")
 addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt"    % "sbt-git"                % "0.8.4")
 addSbtPlugin("org.scala-js"        % "sbt-scalajs"            % "0.6.5")