Initial post, sans logos (#270)

Author: petersmythe

README.md

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-# http://geoserver.org
+# https://geoserver.org
 
-This repository contains the source for the GitHub generated [GeoServer home page](http://geoserver.org/). 
+This repository contains the source for the GitHub generated [GeoServer home page](https://geoserver.org/). 
 
 ## Reporting issues
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The site is built with [Jekyll](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll):
 
    See [TEST.md](TEST.md) for more details.
 
-#. Commit to ``main`` branch and the result is published to http://geoserver.org
+#. Commit to ``main`` branch and the result is published to https://geoserver.org
 
 ## Blog
 

_posts/2025-07-15-cite-certification.md

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+---
+author: Peter Smythe
+date: 2025-07-16
+layout: post
+title: CITE Certification achieved
+categories:
+- Announcements
+tags:
+- Release
+release: release_227
+version: 2.27.0
+--- 
+
+# CITE Certification
+
+The GeoServer team are really pleased to announce that our long-lost CITE Certification has been regained (for 2.27) over the last 6 months.
+
+OGC CITE Certification is important for two reasons:
+
+* Provides a source of black-box testing ensuring that each GeoServer release behaves as intended.
+* Provides a logo and visibility for the project helping to promote the use of open standards.
+
+Recent activity:
+
+* As part of a Camptocamp organized ``OGC API - Features`` sprint Gabriel was able setup a GitHub workflow restoring the use of CITE testing for black-box testing of GeoServer. Gabriel focused on ``OGC API - Features`` certification but found WMS 1.1 and WCS 1.1 tests would also pass out of the box, providing a setup for running the tests in each new pull request.
+* Andrea made further progress certifying the output produced by GeoServer, restoring the WMS 1.3, WFS 1.0 and WFS 1.1 tests, as well as upgrading the test engine to the latest production release. In addition, CITE tests that weren’t run in the past have been added, like WFS 2.0 and GeoTIFF, while other new tests are in progress, like WCS 2.0, WMTS 1.0 and GeoPackage.
+* Peter set up multiple GeoServers for the testing and to act as reference implementations (hosting graciously provided by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation) and ran the test suites.
+* Angelos Tzotsos (OSGeo) submitted the certification request to OGC.
+* Gobe Hobona (OGC) approved all of our submissions.
+
+Many thanks to all who were involved!  After approximately 10 years, we can once again officially confirm that GeoServer is OGC compliant.
+
+## Documentation
+
+Read more about the [developer process](https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/developer/cite-test-guide/index.html#cite-certification)
+
+## The bad news
+
+This certification process is expensive, and we no longer have funding to repeat it.  As mentioned above, these CITE tests are automatically run as part of our build process for each new pull request, so we can unofficially verify that we remain OGC compliant - and that is our guarantee to you.
+
+However, if you/your company finds the CITE Certification valuable to your business, then you should contact the PSC to offer to fund the annual renewal.  The more companies do this, the more the financial load (approx USD 1000 pa) can be spread.
+
+<div style="text-align: center; margin: 20px 0;">
+  <iframe src="https://portal.ogc.org/public_ogc/compliance/srv_ogc_compliance_badge2.php?id=102&pid=1846" 
+          width="190" 
+          frameborder="0"
+          style="border: none; max-width: 100%;">
+  </iframe>
+</div>
+
+# About GeoServer 2.27 Series
+
+Additional information on GeoServer 2.27 series:
+
+* [GeoServer 2.27 User Manual](https://docs.geoserver.org/2.27.x/en/user/)
+* [GeoServer 2025 Q2 Developer Update]({% post_url 2025-05-13-developer-update %})
+* [GeoServer 2025 Roadmap]({% post_url 2025-01-13-roadmap %})
+* [Content-Security-Policy Headers](https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-227)
+* [OGCAPI Features Extension](https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-230)
+* [File system access isolation](https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-229)
+* [Promote data dir catalog loader to core](https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-231)
+
+Release notes:
+( [2.27.1](https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/releases/tag/2.27.1)
+| [2.27.0](https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/releases/tag/2.27.0)
+) 
+