diff --git a/src/diskstore.c b/src/diskstore.c
index 3904310d3..abaecb6b1 100644
--- a/src/diskstore.c
+++ b/src/diskstore.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ int dsOpen(void) {
     /* New disk store, create the directory structure now, as creating
      * them in a lazy way is not a good idea, after very few insertions
      * we'll need most of the 65536 directories anyway. */
-    if (mkdir(path) == -1) {
+    if (mkdir(path,0644) == -1) {
         redisLog(REDIS_WARNING,"Disk store init failed creating dir %s: %s",
             path, strerror(errno));
         return REDIS_ERR;
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index ff8473e78..3913b007a 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define REDIS_VERSION "2.1.8"
+#define REDIS_VERSION "2.3.0"