diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 8e5fa28eac3..dff554c18e1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ on:
 env:
   FAIL_FAST: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
   # Minimum required Java version for running Ozone is defined in pom.xml (javac.version).
-  TEST_JAVA_VERSION: 17 # JDK version used by CI build and tests; should match the JDK version in apache/ozone-runner image
+  TEST_JAVA_VERSION: 21 # JDK version used by CI build and tests; should match the JDK version in apache/ozone-runner image
   MAVEN_OPTS: -Dhttp.keepAlive=false -Dmaven.wagon.http.pool=false -Dmaven.wagon.http.retryHandler.class=standard -Dmaven.wagon.http.retryHandler.count=3
   HADOOP_IMAGE: ghcr.io/apache/hadoop
   OZONE_IMAGE: ghcr.io/apache/ozone
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/pom.xml b/hadoop-ozone/dist/pom.xml
index 20c28b6368b..a3548acdedd 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     <downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
     <docker.ozone.image>apache/ozone</docker.ozone.image>
     <docker.ozone.image.flavor>-rocky</docker.ozone.image.flavor> <!-- suffix appended to Ozone version to get Docker image version -->
-    <docker.ozone-runner.version>20241108-jdk17-1</docker.ozone-runner.version>
+    <docker.ozone-runner.version>20241119-1-jdk21</docker.ozone-runner.version>
     <docker.ozone-testkr5b.image>ghcr.io/apache/ozone-testkrb5:20241129-1</docker.ozone-testkr5b.image>
     <maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip> <!-- no tests in this module so far -->
   </properties>