diff --git a/mysql-20-04/scripts/010-php-my-admin.sh b/mysql-20-04/scripts/010-php-my-admin.sh
index a6507598..3a50e74e 100755
--- a/mysql-20-04/scripts/010-php-my-admin.sh
+++ b/mysql-20-04/scripts/010-php-my-admin.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ chown -R www-data: /etc/apache2
 chown -R www-data: /var/www
 
 # Manually update phpmyadmin to latest version
+if [ -z "${phpmyadmin_version}" ]; then
+  phpmyadmin_version=$(curl -sSL https://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/version.txt | head -1);
+fi
+
 wget -O /tmp/phpmyadmin.tar.gz "https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/${phpmyadmin_version}/phpMyAdmin-${phpmyadmin_version}-all-languages.tar.gz"
 mv /usr/share/phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin.bak
 mkdir /usr/share/phpmyadmin
diff --git a/mysql-20-04/template.json b/mysql-20-04/template.json
index 500ed711..bae355da 100644
--- a/mysql-20-04/template.json
+++ b/mysql-20-04/template.json
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     "apt_packages": "apache2 apache2-utils mysql-server php php-gd php-mysql phpmyadmin python3-certbot-apache libapache2-mod-php lamp-server^ ",
     "application_name": "MySQL",
     "application_version": "8.0.21",
-    "phpmyadmin_version": "5.0.3"
+    "phpmyadmin_version": ""
   },
   "sensitive-variables": ["do_api_token"],
   "builders": [