1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b9d9f9b5e..20b4835fb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1730,6 +1730,7 @@
                   <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/javadoc/*.class</exclude>
                   <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/gui/*.class</exclude>
                   <!-- deprecated classes -->
+                  <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/AbstractFormatCheck.class</exclude>
                   <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/AbstractIllegalCheck.class</exclude>
                 </excludes>
               </instrumentation>