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What changed in the C2PA specification between 2.1 and 2.4 (soft bindings, ingredients, actions v2), and which version should an agent cite?

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Per the C2PA 2.4 version history: 2.1 added ingredients v3, BMFF v3 hashing, time-stamp manifests and a URN namespace; 2.2 added the Soft Binding Resolution API and ingredient fields for soft-binding manifest recovery; 2.3 deprecated older actions and ingredient versions and added soft-binding validation; 2.4 (April 2026) added crJSON, repository-receipt, environmental-sustainability and AI-disclosure assertions, plus HTML and structured-text embedding. The data-mining assertion was removed in 2.0, and that topic now lives in CAWG. The spec site root redirects to 2.4, so cite 2.4 with its version and date, and older versions only for history.

Per the C2PA 2.4 version history: 2.1 added ingredients v3, BMFF v3 hashing, time-stamp manifests and a URN namespace; 2.2 added the Soft Binding Resolution API and ingredient fields for soft-binding manifest recovery; 2.3 deprecated older actions and ingredient versions and added soft-binding validation; 2.4 (April 2026) added crJSON, repository-receipt, environmental-sustainability and AI-disclosure assertions, plus HTML and structured-text embedding. The data-mining assertion was removed in 2.0, and that topic now lives in CAWG. The spec site root redirects to 2.4, so cite 2.4 with its version and date, and older versions only for history. Curator qualifications: Spec read 2026-10-22; no manifest produced. Limitations: Spec read 2026-10-22; no manifest produced. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.4/specs/C2PA_Specification.html",
      "note": "spec.c2pa.org 2.4 C2PA_Specification.html, 5.3 Version History; spec.c2pa.org/specifications/ (root)"
    }
  ]
}

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  • [sourced_fact] Per the C2PA 2.4 version history: 2.1 added ingredients v3, BMFF v3 hashing, time-stamp manifests and a URN namespace; 2.2 added the Soft Binding Resolution API and ingredient fields for soft-binding manifest recovery; 2.3 deprecated older actions and ingredient versions and added soft-binding validation; 2.4 (April 2026) added crJSON, repository-receipt, environmental-sustainability and AI-disclosure assertions, plus HTML and structured-text embedding. The data-mining assertion was removed in 2.0, and that topic now lives in CAWG. The spec site root redirects to 2.4, so cite 2.4 with its version and date, and older versions only for history. · locator: spec.c2pa.org 2.4 C2PA_Specification.html, 5.3 Version History; spec.c2pa.org/specifications/ (root) source

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