@Zac Spitzer that is what i’m saying, not defining the version, means it will use the version installed. defining an optional version simply would mean to see if a the given version is availble locally and load it.

@Michael Offner i think we should just simply try and use the installed version, generally speaking Lucee extensions are always backwards compatible, so this would only be a problem when downgrading and some new api method isn’t available in the older version?

we still should make sure that tags in the source code do not reference a specific version of a bundle, that way they use whatever is installed OR maybe we add the option of OPTIONAL version, that means when only when the bundle is not available locally it will try to download that version.

@Zac Spitzer in Lucee 6 we should use cftimeout with that.

I've checked this ticket with the lucee latest version 5.3.10.70-SNAPSHOT and the issue was solved. Update or downgrade the image extension doesn't affect accessing the admin application page even after the restarting lucee.