diff --git a/third_party/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/CMakeLists.txt
index 4ba17b33e629..29d691dd937f 100644
--- a/third_party/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/third_party/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ if(VELOX_ENABLE_ARROW)
   ExternalProject_Add(
     arrow_ep
     PREFIX ${ARROW_PREFIX}
-    URL "https://dlcdn.apache.org/arrow/arrow-8.0.0/apache-arrow-8.0.0.tar.gz"
+    URL "https://dlcdn.apache.org/arrow/arrow-11.0.0/apache-arrow-11.0.0.tar.gz"
     SOURCE_SUBDIR cpp
     CMAKE_ARGS ${ARROW_CMAKE_ARGS}
     BUILD_BYPRODUCTS ${ARROW_LIBDIR}/libarrow.a ${ARROW_LIBDIR}/libparquet.a
diff --git a/velox/dwio/parquet/writer/Writer.cpp b/velox/dwio/parquet/writer/Writer.cpp
index a2d72c2a0a84..33f29d3106c1 100644
--- a/velox/dwio/parquet/writer/Writer.cpp
+++ b/velox/dwio/parquet/writer/Writer.cpp
@@ -33,13 +33,12 @@ void Writer::write(const RowVectorPtr& data) {
   if (!arrowWriter_) {
     stream_ = std::make_shared<DataBufferSink>(pool_);
     auto arrowProperties = ::parquet::ArrowWriterProperties::Builder().build();
-    PARQUET_THROW_NOT_OK(::parquet::arrow::FileWriter::Open(
+    PARQUET_ASSIGN_OR_THROW(arrowWriter_, ::parquet::arrow::FileWriter::Open(
         *recordBatch->schema(),
         arrow::default_memory_pool(),
         stream_,
         properties_,
-        arrowProperties,
-        &arrowWriter_));
+        arrowProperties));
   }
 
   PARQUET_THROW_NOT_OK(arrowWriter_->WriteTable(*table, 10000));