I’m working on some Java project. I use IntelliJ IDEA and deciced to go with Oracle’s OpenJDK-18. But… this runtime is available by default only during compilation in the IDE. In the system I have OpenJDK-11. Trying to run code compiled by JDK-18 on JDK-11 gives me the following message:

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Main has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 62.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 55.

To overcome this go to module settings (or Project Structure) and change Language Level to lower value. In case you compile with 18 then it will have version 18 set. Switch to version 11 (local variables syntax for lambda parameters) and compile once again. Now you will be able to launch your application even with older JDK.