diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix
index 538b4224909c..ab37c726515d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 { pkgs, lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, makeWrapper, gawk, gnum4, gnused
 , libxml2, libxslt, ncurses, openssl, perl, autoconf
-# TODO: use jdk https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/89731
-, openjdk8 ? null # javacSupport
+, openjdk11 ? null # javacSupport
 , unixODBC ? null # odbcSupport
 , libGL ? null, libGLU ? null, wxGTK ? null, wxmac ? null, xorg ? null
 , parallelBuild ? false
@@ -17,7 +16,7 @@
 , enableThreads ? true
 , enableSmpSupport ? true
 , enableKernelPoll ? true
-, javacSupport ? false, javacPackages ? [ openjdk8 ]
+, javacSupport ? false, javacPackages ? [ openjdk11 ]
 , odbcSupport ? false, odbcPackages ? [ unixODBC ]
 , withSystemd ? stdenv.isLinux # systemd support in epmd
 , wxPackages ? [ libGL libGLU wxGTK xorg.libX11 ]
@@ -37,7 +36,7 @@ assert wxSupport -> (if stdenv.isDarwin
   else libGL != null && libGLU != null && wxGTK != null && xorg != null);
 
 assert odbcSupport -> unixODBC != null;
-assert javacSupport -> openjdk8 != null;
+assert javacSupport -> openjdk11 != null;
 
 let
   inherit (lib) optional optionals optionalAttrs optionalString;