diff --git a/.mvn/checkstyle-suppressions.xml b/.mvn/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..27bcec20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.mvn/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+
+<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC
+  "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.1//EN"
+  "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
+
+<suppressions>
+  <suppress files="release\.properties" checks="[a-zA-Z0-9]*"/>
+</suppressions>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8dbfe189..36c034d0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
           <configLocation>${maven.multiModuleProjectDirectory}/.mvn/checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
+          <suppressionsLocation>${maven.multiModuleProjectDirectory}/.mvn/checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
           <includeTestSourceDirectory>true</includeTestSourceDirectory>
           <sourceDirectories>
             <sourceDirectory>${project.build.sourceDirectory}</sourceDirectory>