October 2025: Delivered critical backend improvements across geotools/geotools and geoserver/geoserver, focusing on upgrading search infrastructure, maintaining compatibility across Elasticsearch distributions, and cleaning up the codebase to reduce maintenance burden. Key work included upgrading the Elasticsearch client to 9.1.5 in geotools/geotools with test compatibility fixes for non-OSS Docker images, including conditional X-Pack security handling and updated mappings/alias APIs to support newer ES versions. In geoserver/geoserver, fixed GWC module compilation after Spring 6 and Servlet API 6.0 migration by renaming internal bridge classes for production-aligned behavior, and performed targeted code quality cleanup by removing redundant isWrapperFor/unwrap methods and applying formatting via mvn spotless:apply.