diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 29dc888..186f979 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -3,31 +3,35 @@
 Fixes:
 
 o Removed setting of Producer field in AGPL version
+* Removed long-deprecated -control
+* New -args-json for better control files
+
+* = Supported by a grant from NLnet
 
 2.7.1 (July 2024)
 
 New features:
 
 o Build PDF files from JPEG2000 (.jp2, .jpf/.jpx) files
-o Mark a file as PDF/UA compliant, or remove such marking *
-o Verify compliance to PDF/UA via the Matterhorn protocol *
-o Extract, edit and reapply document structure tree *
-o Print structure tree summary *
-o Split structure tree when splitting PDF to save size *
-o Combine structure trees when stamping PDFs *
-o Set the natural language of a file *
+* Mark a file as PDF/UA compliant, or remove such marking
+* Verify compliance to PDF/UA via the Matterhorn protocol
+* Extract, edit and reapply document structure tree
+* Print structure tree summary
+* Split structure tree when splitting PDF to save size
+* Combine structure trees when stamping PDFs
+* Set the natural language of a file
 
 Extended features:
 
 o Allow -obj to look up nested PDF information
-o Merge structure trees better when merging files *
-o Report top-level natural language on -info *
-o Report mark information dictionary contents on -info *
+* Merge structure trees better when merging files
+* Report top-level natural language on -info
+* Report mark information dictionary contents on -info
 
 Backward-incompatible change:
 
-o -process-struct-tree replaces -no-process-struct-tree
-newly introduced in previous version *
+* -process-struct-tree replaces -no-process-struct-tree
+newly introduced in previous version
 
 * = Supported by a grant from NLnet
 
diff --git a/cpdfcommand.ml b/cpdfcommand.ml
index b9f1edd..cc25569 100644
--- a/cpdfcommand.ml
+++ b/cpdfcommand.ml
@@ -1454,8 +1454,6 @@ let rec parse_chars args = function
       let this, rest = getarg [] (h::t) in
         parse_chars (this::args) rest
 
-let control_args = ref []
-
 let parse_control_file name =
   (parse_chars []
      (charlist_of_bytes (Pdfio.bytes_of_input_channel (open_in_bin name))))
@@ -1857,11 +1855,7 @@ let setextractstreamdecomp s =
 let setprintobj s =
   args.op <- Some (PrintObj s)
 
-(* Parse a control file, make an argv, and then make Arg parse it. *)
-let rec make_control_argv_and_parse filename =
-  control_args := !control_args @ parse_control_file filename
-
-and specs =
+let specs =
    [("-version",
       Arg.Unit (setop Version),
       " Print the cpdf version number");
@@ -1958,9 +1952,6 @@ and specs =
    ("-fast",
       Arg.Unit setfast,
       " Speed over correctness with malformed documents");
-   ("-control",
-      Arg.String make_control_argv_and_parse,
-      " Use a control file. Deprecated. Use -args.");
    ("-args",
       Arg.Unit (fun () -> ()),
       " Get arguments from a file.");
@@ -4622,7 +4613,6 @@ let go_withargv argv =
            Cpdfdrawcontrol.drawops := [("_MAIN", [])];
            process_env_vars ();
            parse_argv () s (align_specs specs) anon_fun usage_msg;
-           parse_argv () (Array.of_list ("cpdf"::!control_args)) (align_specs specs) anon_fun usage_msg;
            let addrange pdf = AlreadyInMemory (pdf, "fromAND"), args.dashrange, "", "", ref false, None in
              args.inputs <- rev (map addrange !output_pdfs) @ rev args.inputs;
              output_pdfs := [];
diff --git a/cpdfmanual.tex b/cpdfmanual.tex
index 6f8aa53..baa0aa6 100644
--- a/cpdfmanual.tex
+++ b/cpdfmanual.tex
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-%Document JPEG2000 embedding
+%Document -control removal, -args-json addition
 \documentclass{book}
 % Edit here to produce cpdfmanual.pdf, cpdflibmanual.pdf, pycpdfmanual.pdf,
 % dotnetcpdflibmanual.pdf, jcpdflibmanual.pdf jscpdflibmanual.pdf etc.