diff --git a/apps/validator/src/lib/report.ts b/apps/validator/src/lib/report.ts
index 179331e..5e18f7b 100644
Binary files a/apps/validator/src/lib/report.ts and b/apps/validator/src/lib/report.ts differ
diff --git a/apps/validator/src/main.ts b/apps/validator/src/main.ts
index 6b48202..dcfe4aa 100644
--- a/apps/validator/src/main.ts
+++ b/apps/validator/src/main.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import { excerptAt, formatPointer } from "./lib/locate.js";
 import {
   buildReport,
   MAX_SOURCE_BYTES,
+  recommendationsBlurb,
   type DocumentKind,
   type Finding,
   type Report,
@@ -515,7 +516,7 @@ function renderReport(report: Report, label: string): void {
       renderFindings(
         recommendationsBox,
         "Recommendations",
-        "Unmet spec recommendations (SHOULD). The document is still valid; these make it easier to find, filter and subscribe to.",
+        recommendationsBlurb(report.specVersion),
         report.recommendations,
         "warn",
       );
diff --git a/apps/validator/test/report.test.ts b/apps/validator/test/report.test.ts
index 93be205..7b4b119 100644
--- a/apps/validator/test/report.test.ts
+++ b/apps/validator/test/report.test.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,13 @@ import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 
 import { LATEST_VERSION } from "@opentechevents/validate";
 
-import { buildReport, MAX_DEPTH, maxDepth, type Report } from "../src/lib/report.js";
+import {
+  buildReport,
+  MAX_DEPTH,
+  maxDepth,
+  recommendationsBlurb,
+  type Report,
+} from "../src/lib/report.js";
 
 /** Reuses packages/validate's fixtures: one corpus, one opinion of "valid". */
 function fixture(name: string): string {
@@ -215,3 +221,42 @@ describe("buildReport — spec versions", () => {
     expect(report.recommendations).toEqual([]);
   });
 });
+
+// D042: a 1.0 freezes validity, not the recommended profiles. Anything that
+// scores or badges on this list has to know which version produced it.
+describe("recommendationsBlurb", () => {
+  it("names the version whose profile produced the list", () => {
+    expect(recommendationsBlurb("0.6.0")).toContain("OTE 0.6.0's recommended profile");
+  });
+
+  it("warns that the list is not frozen the way validity is", () => {
+    const blurb = recommendationsBlurb("0.6.0");
+    expect(blurb).toContain("not frozen");
+    expect(blurb).toMatch(/add or drop recommendations/);
+  });
+
+  // The recommendations are still SHOULD-level, and saying so is what keeps
+  // them from reading as errors.
+  it("keeps the SHOULD framing and the reassurance that the document is valid", () => {
+    const blurb = recommendationsBlurb("0.6.0");
+    expect(blurb).toContain("(SHOULD)");
+    expect(blurb).toContain("still valid");
+  });
+
+  // Unreachable through the UI — no version checked means no recommendations,
+  // and the box stays hidden — but the sentence must not read "OTE null's".
+  it("does not invent a version when none was applied", () => {
+    const blurb = recommendationsBlurb(null);
+    expect(blurb).not.toContain("null");
+    expect(blurb).toContain("the recommended profile");
+  });
+
+  // The version shown is the one actually checked, which is not always the
+  // one the document declares — a hand-picked version has to win here too.
+  it("reports whichever version was checked", async () => {
+    const report = validated(
+      await buildReport(fixture("versioned/event-0.3.0.json"), { version: LATEST_VERSION }),
+    );
+    expect(recommendationsBlurb(report.specVersion)).toContain(`OTE ${LATEST_VERSION}`);
+  });
+});