diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 0b35e19..3a5e3c4 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2020 Open Networking Foundation <support@opennetworking.org>
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-netbox_version: "2.9.3"
-netbox_version_checksum: "sha256:c9e47993b265ccdb0b88f27c9b023e8adee003d93d478f85c16183baee5586d4"
+# version and checksum of the .tar.gz distribution on github
+netbox_version: "2.9.10"
+netbox_version_checksum: "sha256:7499c5e9644120b821f13914862154551b94c20df1b3b9ae41c25cd7bf3d8ad4"
 
 # unix username/groupname
 netbox_username: "netbox"
diff --git a/tasks/main.yml b/tasks/main.yml
index e4f2ada..71ac592 100644
--- a/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tasks/main.yml
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
     path: "{{ netbox_media_dir }}"
     owner: "{{ netbox_username }}"
     state: "directory"
+    mode: "u+rwX,go+rX"  # 755 on dirs, 644 on files
     recurse: true
 
 - name: Add local_requirements.txt for netbox extensions