  The RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) published in November 2013 its fourth
data release with the stellar atmospheric parameters, abundances, distances,
radial velocities, proper motions and spectral morphological flags of more than
480,000 targets. With that, a plethora of papers ranging from the mass of the
Milky Way to the mapping of the Diffuse Interstellar Band, and from the
chemo-dynamical history and properties of the disc to the Galaxy's bar pattern
speed have also been published. Being one of the largest spectroscopic surveys
in the magnitude range of Gaia, RAVE has helped to pave the way for the
exploitation of the Gaia catalogs. Here, we review some of these results and
present some perspectives about future RAVE data releases.

Astrophysics of Galaxies