State of GeoServer reviewing the new and noteworthy features introduced in the past year. The project has an aggressive six month release cycle with GeoServer 2.7 and 2.8 being released this year. These releases bring together exciting new features. A lot of work has been done on processing services with clustering, security and processing control. The rendering engine continues to improve with the addition of color blending opening up a range of creative possibilities. The CSS extension (used to easily generate OGC standard styles) has been cleaned up with a rewrite. This talk will highlighted updates on data import, application schema use, data transforms and the latest from the developer list. Attend this talk for a cheerful update on what is happening with this popular OSGeo project. Whether you are an expert user, a developer, or simply curious what these projects can do for you, this talk is for you.