SHACL 1.2

Revision of SHACL by the W3C Data Shapes Working Group, in drafts since March 2025, adding modules for node expressions, rules, user interfaces, profiling and, from September 2026, inference rules that derive new triples from existing ones.

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Part of the thread Unknown or false? proposes

published by

• World Wide Web Consortium organization 1994 [src]

succeeded

• SHACL standard 2017 [src]

[?] Unconfirmed

• start: Date of the first public draft of SHACL 1.2 Core; it is not yet a Recommendation.

Sources

• https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl12-core/
• https://www.w3.org/standards/history/shacl12-core/
• https://www.w3.org/news/2026/first-public-working-draft-shacl-1-2-inference-rules/