@josue –
You’re absolutely right, but until the update, images never had this closing tag ([/av_image])…so that means any images added/modified within our pages that have existing image elements would be missing that closing tag and therefore have problems. As noted in my previous comment, I have been doing this workaround you’ve mentioned however its unrealistic to have to continue doing this for all edits going forward… We never had any issues like this prior to the update, even though there was never an image close tag.

Also, we had been using the greater than sign on many buttons prior to the update, again, without any issues. Totally understand that that symbol is also used for closing HTML tags, but since it worked before, we used it in multiple buttons and now its broken in the many places it exists. Not sure what was changed in the theme that caused this to happen…

As a temporary workaround for issue #1 (updating existing images breaks page), I enabled debug mode for Advanced Layout Editor. Now when adding/updating images on existing pages, we simply remove any instances of [/av_image] before saving and all is well.

This a pretty ridiculous workaround to say the least, so hopefully the lovely Kriesi developers are able to offer a real fix shortly.

For anyone interested in the mentioned workaround, see this link: http://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/enable-advanced-layout-builder-debug/