Version
9.2

TopBraid EDG 9.2

9.2.0 is a substantive release on three fronts: it completes the multi-version migration to RDF 1.2 reification, brings the SHACL implementation up to date with the SHACL 1.2 working group, and rounds

Overview

9.2.0 is a substantive release on three fronts: it completes the multi-version migration to RDF 1.2 reification, brings the SHACL implementation up to date with the SHACL 1.2 working group, and rounds out a meaningful set of AI, security, and productivity improvements. The headline items below are organized by theme rather than by epic.

RDF 1.2 reification, migration completed

9.0 introduced RDF 1.2 reifiers alongside legacy long-URI reification, and 9.1 ran a deprecation cycle. With 9.2.0, the legacy form is gone. An init script automatically migrates existing workspaces to RDF 1.2 reifiers on first start of 9.2 (or later); the migration is recorded in the change history of each collection and can be undone from there. The same migration can be triggered per-collection via Modify > Migrate to RDF 1.2 reification, or programmatically via tbs:migrateReifications.

Crosswalk comments, SHACL constraint reification (sh:deactivated, sh:severity, sh:message), edg:status, and ai-settings:publishedProperty have all been switched to RDF 1.2 (TBS-9516, TBS-9515, TBS-8394, TBS-8392). The product configuration parameters that controlled the legacy form have been removed (TBS-8406), and Export to JSON-LD and RDF/XML now works with RDF 1.2 reified triples (TBS-9629). Downstream code (ADS scripts, SPARQL queries, integrations) that was written against the old tosh:reificationURI model needs to be updated before upgrading.

SHACL 1.2, major feature catch-up

9.2.0 picks up a substantial slice of the SHACL 1.2 working group’s recent work, plus fit-and-finish items.

– New constraint components: sh:unit with QUDT (TBS-9465), sh:rootClass (TBS-9762), sh:subsetOf (TBS-9763), sh:uniqueValuesFor with UI support (TBS-9843, TBS-9848), sh:intent and sh:agentInstruction for declarative agentic-workflow hints (TBS-9677).

– sh:targetWhere is now usable, with better performance for common patterns (TBS-9669).

– Property pair constraints accept SHACL paths (TBS-9610), sh:uniqueLang updated for dirLangString (TBS-9575), list-based sh:class constraints with combined “classes” widget (TBS-8255), sh:severity declarable on SPARQL constraints (TBS-9947).

– Bug fix: setting “Or Class” no longer overwrites the “Class” field (TBS-8088).

AI and SPARQL

Inferences as persistent, queryable data (TBS-8363). The Inferences panel can now write to a dedicated, per-collection inferences graph (<urn:asset-collection:NAME:inferences>), with incremental updates. Inferred triples become first-class, queryable artifacts rather than something computed on demand and discarded.

Vector search exposed as SPARQL multi-functions (TBS-9581). New functions ai:vectorSearchExactPhraseMatch, ai:vectorSearchHybrid (with an alpha parameter to balance keyword vs vector), ai:vectorSearchKeyword, and ai:vectorSearchVector, each supporting limit and offset, make vector search directly scriptable from SPARQL queries and ADS. The score threshold is now applied server-side by the AI service and is also available via GraphQL (TBS-9580).

Easier Natural Language to SPARQL setup (TBS-10169). A new “Create Natural Language to SPARQL config” action on ontologies generates a default vector index configuration, removing manual setup steps for the NL-to-SPARQL feature.

Branding update. “TopBraid AI Service” is now “TQ AI Service” throughout labels and descriptions (TBS-9931).

Python client library: Phase 2. The package was renamed from edg-sdk to tq-client-lib (TBS-9553) and rounded out for data-science workflows: SPARQL results to a Pandas DataFrame (TBS-9554), authentication tested across multiple EDG configurations (TBS-9587), improved RAG integrations and helpers (TBS-9586), and vector-search methods exposed in the client (TBS-9582).

Security and enterprise authentication

A coordinated hardening pass across authentication, web, and Git integrations.

– Multiple OAuth authorization servers can now be configured in oauth2.yaml (TBS-9788).

– Stricter URL whitelisting for internal and non-routable URLs (TBS-9497).

– Removed the deprecated Microsoft 365 Resource Owner Password Credentials flow (TBS-9620).

– OAuth2 and LDAP role validation tightened (TBS-10424).

– Spring Security 7.0.5 upgrade addressing CVE-2026-22746/22747/22748/22751/22753/22754 (TBS-10430).

– Git integration: path-traversal fix and better symlink handling (TBS-10486), repository URL validation (TBS-10511).

– XSS guard against malicious resource labels in tree nodes (TBS-9494).

– CVE-2025-27789 (ReDoS in @babel/runtime) addressed (TBS-8780).

Audit-trail correctness for Git-backed collections (TBS-9924): Git commits now record the current user as author/email rather than the service account.

Productivity and quality of life

– Quick-search box on the RDF/OWL properties panel (TBS-7665) and on the Create Asset dialog’s type tree (TBS-9483).

– Clicking an HTML-typed property label opens the rich-text editor full-screen (TBS-5938).

– Blank nodes with an rdf:type (e.g. at sh:rule) are now clickable for navigation (TBS-9812).

– Change History “Watch” mode (TBS-9936): automatically tracks edits made in other browser tabs and refreshes the panel incrementally.

– Reusable spreadsheet import templates (TBS-9986): Import Instances from Spreadsheet can now save and reuse configurations, like the pattern-based importer.

– View shapes selector on the Form Panel shows the property count for each view (TBS-9810).

– Taxonomy Concepts panel can be filtered to locally defined concept schemes only (TBS-9811); skos:inScheme is visible and editable on Concept forms (TBS-9907).

Workflow and governance

– Voting workflows now support teamwork:oneVotePerGovernanceRole (TBS-9768).

– Transitions to Committed enforce a minimum editor permission on the production copy regardless of what the workflow template declares (TBS-9819).

– Voting workflow auto-transitions and current-transition handling fixed (TBS-9824, TBS-9768).

OWL and SHACL interoperability

– Import SHACL Ontology now accepts .owl files, interpreted as RDF/XML (TBS-9884).

– The noisy “missing label” constraint is bypassed for OWL types like owl:AnnotationProperty and downgraded from error to warning, eliminating alarming-looking errors after OWL import (TBS-9883).

– OWL2SHACL converter copies rdfs:label → sh:name and rdfs:comment → sh:description, and can clean up redundant global property axioms (TBS-9948).

Visualizations

The Conceptual Model Diagram work begun in 9.1 is now reusable as a general pattern (TBS-9672), and a new Asset Diagram panel (TBS-9703) renders an asset-scoped view. Create Resource dialog now allows setting mainClass (TBS-9833) and blocks instantiation of unsupported types (TBS-9822).

Schema, ontologies, and developer surface

– EDG enterprise asset schema gains a BusinessActivityCategory class, activity type and asset-in-scope properties on BusinessActivity, and JobTitle is reclassified as a subclass of OrganizationalRole (TBS-10208).

– PROV-O with SHACL is bundled under Ontologies/External at <http://topbraid.org/prov> (TBS-9855).

– ADS: new graph.removeTriples() (TBS-7587); graph.update() accepts SPARQL INSERT DATA and DELETE DATA (TBS-10204); new multi-function tbs:dependingTriples (TBS-9916).

– Studio: new –shutdown-port option for programmatic shutdown (TBS-10219).

Explorer

Revised handling of team-graph publishing to Explorer (TBS-9912), and Publishing to Explorer no longer sends saved SPARQL queries or Tasks while preserving any saved queries already on Explorer. The Publish for Explorer Users plugin now performs a license-suitability check (TBS-9925).

Compatibility notes

– Microsoft Graph SDK v6 upgrade for SharePoint and Excel 365 access (TBS-7743).

– GraphQL-java 25.0 upgrade (TBS-9513).

– Auto-complete fields previously limited to owl:Class now return any subclass of owl:Thing regardless of rdf:type (TBS-9601): instances of sh:ShapeClass, for example, are now visible.

– tbs:createAssetCollection and dataset import reject collection IDs that don’t match ^[a-z][a-z0-9_]*$ (TBS-9628, TBS-9719).

Upgrade notes

The RDF 1.2 reification migration runs automatically on first start, but is irreversible from inside the application other than via the change-history undo. Take a backup before upgrading. If you maintain custom ADS scripts, custom shapes, or external integrations that read or write reified statements using the deprecated long-URI form, update them ahead of the upgrade. The Python client package rename (edg-sdk → tq-client-lib) is a breaking change for anything that imports it; pin the new name in your requirements.txt or pyproject.toml. Removal of the Microsoft 365 ROPC authentication flow (TBS-9620) requires migration to a supported OAuth2 flow.

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Change Log:
TopBraid Suite Change Log 9.2.0
TopBraid Suite Change Log 9.2.1
TopBraid Suite Change Log 9.2.2

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