diff --git a/ant/build-core.xml b/ant/build-core.xml
index 64dd2f7e3c..ae503ef475 100644
--- a/ant/build-core.xml
+++ b/ant/build-core.xml
@@ -165,6 +165,9 @@
         <!-- Compress -->
         <not><isset property="extCompress"/></not>
         <not><isset property="extCompressVersion"/></not>
+        <!-- Markdown -->
+        <not><isset property="extMarkdown"/></not>
+        <not><isset property="extMarkdownVersion"/></not>
         </or>
     </condition>
     </fail>
@@ -248,7 +251,7 @@
         </sequential>
     </macrodef>
 
-    <target name="check" depends="check-mysql,check-mssql,check-postgre,check-jdts,check-s3,check-ehcache,check-pdf,check-admin,check-doc,check-image,check-esapi,check-compress,check-testbox,check-lucee-loader-jar,download-lucee-loader-jar">
+    <target name="check" depends="check-mysql,check-mssql,check-postgre,check-jdts,check-s3,check-ehcache,check-pdf,check-admin,check-doc,check-image,check-esapi,check-compress,check-markdown,check-testbox,check-lucee-loader-jar,download-lucee-loader-jar">
       <mkdir dir="${temp}/loader/extensions/"/>
     </target> 
 
diff --git a/ant/build-extensions.xml b/ant/build-extensions.xml
index af160deb1f..a3e97af556 100644
--- a/ant/build-extensions.xml
+++ b/ant/build-extensions.xml
@@ -4,10 +4,21 @@
 <scriptdef name="readRequiredExtensions" language="javascript" classpath="${nashorn_classpath}">
 	<attribute name="file" />
 	<![CDATA[
+		var echo = project.createTask( "echo" );
 		var filename = attributes.get( "file" );
 		var manifest = new java.util.jar.Manifest( new java.io.FileInputStream( new java.io.File( filename ) ) );
 		var attrs = manifest.getMainAttributes();
 		var str = attrs.getValue( "Require-Extension" );
+		if (str == null){
+			echo.setMessage( "Error reading MANIFEST.MF - Require-Extension");
+			echo.perform();
+			for (var a in attrs){
+				echo.setMessage( " - " + a );
+				echo.perform();
+			}
+			echo.setMessage( "Require-Extension: " + str );
+			echo.perform();
+		}
 		var arr = str.split( "," );
 		var count = 0;
 		var ids = "";
@@ -156,6 +167,7 @@
 		<available file="${cache}/${extImage}-${extImageVersion}.lex" property="image.present"/>
 		<available file="${cache}/${extEsapi}-${extEsapiVersion}.lex" property="esapi.present"/>
 		<available file="${cache}/${extCompress}-${extCompressVersion}.lex" property="compress.present"/>
+		<available file="${cache}/${extMarkdown}-${extMarkdownVersion}.lex" property="markdown.present"/>
 	</target>
 
 	<target name="check-mysql" depends="check-cache" unless="mysql.present">
@@ -194,6 +206,9 @@
 	<target name="check-compress" depends="check-cache" unless="compress.present">
 		<get src="${extURL}${extCompress}?version=${extCompressVersion}" dest="${cache}/${extCompress}-${extCompressVersion}.lex"/>
 	</target>
+	<target name="check-markdown" depends="check-cache" unless="markdown.present">
+		<get src="${extURL}${extMarkdown}?version=${extMarkdownVersion}" dest="${cache}/${extMarkdown}-${extMarkdownVersion}.lex"/>
+	</target>
 	<target name="check-testbox" depends="check-cache" unless="testbox.present">
 		<get src="${testboxURL}" dest="${cache}/testbox-${testboxVersion}.zip"/>
 	</target> 
@@ -346,7 +361,18 @@
 			tofile="${goal}/extensions/${ext_compress.filename}"/>
 		<echo level="info">add:${goal}/extensions/${ext_compress.filename}</echo>
 		<echo file="${goal}/extensions/.index" append="true">${ext_compress.filename};</echo>
-
+		
+		<!-- add extension Markdown -->
+		<loadmf jar="${cache}/${extMarkdown}-${extMarkdownVersion}.lex" prefix="ext_markdown."/>
+		<toFileName id="${ext_markdown.id}" name="${ext_markdown.name}" version="${ext_markdown.version}" property="ext_markdown.filename"/>
+		<copy 
+			file="${cache}/${extMarkdown}-${extMarkdownVersion}.lex"
+			todir="${goal}/extensions/"/>
+		<move 
+			file="${goal}/extensions/${extMarkdown}-${extMarkdownVersion}.lex"
+			tofile="${goal}/extensions/${ext_markdown.filename}"/>
+		<echo level="info">add:${goal}/extensions/${ext_markdown.filename}</echo>
+		<echo file="${goal}/extensions/.index" append="true">${ext_markdown.filename};</echo>
 	</target>
 
 	<target name="check-lucee-loader-jar">
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 3837f7a806..05361fc078 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -358,12 +358,6 @@
       <version>5.13.0</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.lucee</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commonmark</artifactId>
-      <version>0.22.0</version>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.lucee</groupId>
       <artifactId>janino</artifactId>
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/core/src/main/java/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index c804b34d4a..ce904c4c81 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ b/core/src/main/java/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -357,7 +357,6 @@ Require-Bundle: org.apache.commons.commons-codec;bundle-version=1.15.0,
  com.github.mwiede.jsch;bundle-version=0.2.21,
  org.lucee.jzlib;bundle-version=1.1.3,
  com.sun.jna;bundle-version=5.13.0,
- org.lucee.commonmark;bundle-version=0.22.0,
  com.github.f4b6a3.ulid;bundle-version=5.2.3,
  org.lucee.janino;bundle-version=3.1.9,
  org.lucee.janinocc;bundle-version=3.1.9
@@ -372,4 +371,5 @@ Require-Extension: 7E673D15-D87C-41A6-8B5F1956528C605F;name=MySQL;label=MySQL;ve
  66E312DD-D083-27C0-64189D16753FD6F0;name=PDF;label=PDF;version=1.2.0.10,
  B737ABC4-D43F-4D91-8E8E973E37C40D1B;name=Image;label=Image;version=2.0.0.26;since=5.3.0.35-ALPHA,
  37C61C0A-5D7E-4256-8572639BE0CF5838;name=Esapi;label=ESAPI;version=2.2.4.17-SNAPSHOT;since=5.3.0.37-ALPHA,
- 8D7FB0DF-08BB-1589-FE3975678F07DB17;name=Compress;label=Compress;version=1.0.0.15;since=5.3.2.31-SNAPSHOT
+ 8D7FB0DF-08BB-1589-FE3975678F07DB17;name=Compress;label=Compress;version=1.0.0.15;since=5.3.2.31-SNAPSHOT,
+ 3AEDA748-F62B-42E3-8E8DC5AE0DDABE09;name=Markdown;label=Markdown;version=1.0.0.0
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/lucee/runtime/functions/string/MarkdownToHTML.java b/core/src/main/java/lucee/runtime/functions/string/MarkdownToHTML.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 836635a2a3..0000000000
--- a/core/src/main/java/lucee/runtime/functions/string/MarkdownToHTML.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-package lucee.runtime.functions.string;
-
-import org.commonmark.node.Node;
-import org.commonmark.parser.Parser;
-import org.commonmark.renderer.html.HtmlRenderer;
-
-import lucee.runtime.PageContext;
-import lucee.runtime.exp.FunctionException;
-import lucee.runtime.exp.PageException;
-import lucee.runtime.ext.function.BIF;
-import lucee.runtime.ext.function.Function;
-import lucee.runtime.op.Caster;
-
-public class MarkdownToHTML extends BIF implements Function {
-
-	private static final long serialVersionUID = 3775127934350736736L;
-
-	@Override
-	public Object invoke(PageContext pc, Object[] args) throws PageException {
-		if (args.length < 1 || args.length > 2) {
-			throw new FunctionException(pc, "MarkdownToHTML", 1, 2, args.length);
-		}
-		return call(pc, Caster.toString(args[0]));
-	}
-
-	public static String call(PageContext pc, String markdown) {
-		return call(pc, markdown, false, null);
-	}
-
-	public static String call(PageContext pc, String markdown, boolean safeMode) {
-		return call(pc, markdown, safeMode, null);
-	}
-
-	public static String call(PageContext pc, String markdown, boolean safeMode, String encoding) {
-		Parser parser = Parser.builder().build();
-		// Parse the markdown to a Node
-		Node document = parser.parse(markdown);
-		// Create a HTML renderer
-		HtmlRenderer renderer = HtmlRenderer.builder().build();
-		// Render the Node to HTML
-		return renderer.render(document);
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * public static void main(String[] args) { print.e(Processor.process("This is ***TXTMARK***",
-	 * false)); }
-	 */
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/resource/fld/core-base.fld b/core/src/main/java/resource/fld/core-base.fld
index 6801064a3d..78de8aebef 100755
--- a/core/src/main/java/resource/fld/core-base.fld
+++ b/core/src/main/java/resource/fld/core-base.fld
@@ -9711,43 +9711,6 @@ mavenLoad([
 		</return>
 	</function>
 
-
-	
-	<!-- MarkdownToHTML -->
-	<function>
-		<name>MarkdownToHTML</name>
-		<member-name>MarkdownToHTML</member-name>
-		<class>lucee.runtime.functions.string.MarkdownToHTML</class>
-	<keywords>string</keywords>
-		<description>Transforms Markdown formatted String into HTML.</description>
-		<introduced>6.0.0.150</introduced>
-		<argument>
-			<name>string</name>
-			<alias>markdown</alias>
-			<type>string</type>
-			<required>Yes</required>
-			<description>A Markdown formatted string or a path to a file containf a markdown formatted string to convert to HTML</description>
-		</argument>
-		<argument>
-			<name>safeMode</name>
-			<type>boolean</type>
-			<alias>safe</alias>
-			<default>false</default>
-			<required>No</required>
-			<description>If set to true it does escape unsafe HTML tags</description>
-		</argument>
-		<argument>
-			<name>encoding</name>
-			<type>string</type>
-			<alias>charset</alias>
-			<required>No</required>
-			<description>Charset, only used in case the argument markdown contains a file path</description>
-		</argument>
-		<return>
-			<type>string</type>
-		</return>
-	</function>
-	
 	<!-- CreateAISession -->
 	<function>
 		<name>LuceeCreateAISession</name>
diff --git a/loader/pom.xml b/loader/pom.xml
index d7c6e5fff5..b7902c1120 100644
--- a/loader/pom.xml
+++ b/loader/pom.xml
@@ -648,12 +648,6 @@
     <version>5.13.0</version>
     <scope>provided</scope>
   </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.lucee</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commonmark</artifactId>
-      <version>0.22.0</version>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
-    </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.lucee</groupId>
     <artifactId>janino</artifactId>