Active-comparator designs and new-user designs can help mitigate such biases in observational studies and improve the validity of their findings by making them more closely approximate RCTs.

This latest version of Java, due to arrive as a production release on September 16, has 18 features. JDK 25 comes on the heels of JDK 24, a six-month-support release that arrived March 18.

Java 24 arrived today in a production release, packed with two dozen features. It’s a short-term support release eligible for six months of premier support.