FOSS4G 2023 Prizren OpenLayers is a powerful web-mapping library, and it has been around for quite a while. Far from being stuck in a past state where it offered most features anyone could expect, the community of contributors and maintainers are continuously pushing it forward, rethinking orientations and taking in new trends. Be it cloud-native formats, emerging standards or drastic performance improvements, more and more innovations are becoming parts of OpenLayers feature set. This talk will give you an overview of the past few years of development, and show in how many incredibly useful ways OpenLayers can be used nowadays. We will also discover the exciting developments that are shaping up for the future, and how all this is being made possible.