Flink has graduated from an Apache incubator project to a top-level project, attracting many new contributors. Recent releases have added features like a Table API, Gelly graph processing, and integrations with SAMOA machine learning and Google Dataflow. The talk outlines Flink's history and recent developments from 2014 to mid-2015, including three students working on Flink over the summer, and announces the first Flink Forward conference in October 2015.