Merge branch 'master' into patch-1

Author: Tejasrahane

pom.xml

@@ -112,14 +112,14 @@
                     <dependency>
                     <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                     <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                    <version>12.0.1</version>
+                    <version>12.1.0</version>
                     </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
                 <artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>4.9.7.0</version>
+                <version>4.9.8.1</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <excludeFilterFile>spotbugs-exclude.xml</excludeFilterFile>
                     <includeTests>true</includeTests>