Please take a look this: Upgrade pinot to use java11 compiler and allowed fallback to build and run with JDK 8: https://github.com/apache/incubator-pinot/pull/6424

@User are we dropping java8 and move towards java11? (i.e. we officially moved to java 8 to use lambda features a while ago)

Yes, that’s the plan. https://github.com/apache/incubator-pinot/issues/6689

got it. At LinkedIn, we internally migrated to jvm 11 for the runtime env and saw good performance improvements in gc metrics.

cool, this pr makes Pinot compilable in java11, current pinot can use jdk11 to build java8 binary and runtime on java11

I think that we can announce that Pinot officially supports Java 11 when we cut the next release.

sounds good