diff --git a/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh b/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh
index 7bb4115013a2b5ba42a16c41ec83b07cb45b6480..68ed88240d8c814650ba4235d2e87e4fd5c25aa2 100755
--- a/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh
+++ b/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ fn_arg2boolean IS_LOCAL_TEST_DEPLOY "${2}" "${IS_LOCAL_TEST_DEPLOY}"
 #Armadillo from epel is too new for postgis (version 4 instead of 3), so use hard-coded file here
 ARMADILLO_FILE="armadillo-3.800.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm"
 ARMADILLO_URL="$CACHE_DIR_REMOTE/$ARMADILLO_FILE"
-GEOSERVER_VERSION="2.7.1"
+GEOSERVER_VERSION="2.7.2"
 GEOSERVER_FILE="geoserver-$GEOSERVER_VERSION-war.zip"
 GEOSERVER_DOWNLOAD_URL="http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/$GEOSERVER_VERSION/$GEOSERVER_FILE"
 GEOSERVER_SHELL_VERSION="0.2-SNAPSHOT"