diff --git a/codec-http2/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/DefaultHttp2ConnectionEncoder.java b/codec-http2/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/DefaultHttp2ConnectionEncoder.java
index 29116d17c0..1c9f3dd2fa 100644
--- a/codec-http2/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/DefaultHttp2ConnectionEncoder.java
+++ b/codec-http2/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http2/DefaultHttp2ConnectionEncoder.java
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ public class DefaultHttp2ConnectionEncoder implements Http2ConnectionEncoder, Ht
         // Acknowledge receipt of the settings. We should do this before we process the settings to ensure our
         // remote peer applies these settings before any subsequent frames that we may send which depend upon
         // these new settings. See https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/6520.
-        frameWriter.writeSettingsAck(ctx, aggregator);
+        frameWriter.writeSettingsAck(ctx, aggregator.newPromise());
 
         // We create a "new promise" to make sure that status from both the write and the application are taken into
         // account independently.