diff --git a/site/xdocs/changes.xml b/site/xdocs/changes.xml
index 22ae6248..4e286ddf 100644
--- a/site/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/site/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="add" issue="MPSITE-50" due-to="Shinobu Kawai">New property <code>maven.site.reports.ignoreErrors</code> to ignore any errors in all reports during site generation.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="add">New property <code>maven.site.gunzip.options</code> can be used to set options when using gunzip (default value is -f).</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPSITE-40">Missing <code>maven.ssh.args</code> in <code>site:publish</code>.</action>
-      <action dev="aheritier" type="fix" issue="MPSITE-39">Deploy site on unix create rights rwxr-xr-x. Group members can't override files. The default value for <code>maven.site.chmod.mode</code> is now <code>755</code>.</action>
+      <action dev="aheritier" type="fix" issue="MPSITE-39">Deploy site on unix create rights rwxr-xr-x. Group members can't override files. The default value for <code>maven.site.chmod.mode</code> is now <code>775</code>.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="add" issue="MPSITE-34">New property <code>maven.site.failonerror</code> can be used to bypass remote errors.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="add" issue="MPSITE-31">Make <code>chmod</code> options in <code>site:sshdeploy</code> configurable.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPSITE-24" due-to="Julian Dunn">SSH arguments not used in <code>sshdeploy</code> with 'clean'.</action>
diff --git a/site/xdocs/properties.xml b/site/xdocs/properties.xml
index f6bdc02b..e6eea6b6 100644
--- a/site/xdocs/properties.xml
+++ b/site/xdocs/properties.xml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
           <td>maven.site.chmod.mode</td>
           <td>Yes</td>
           <td>
-            Specifies the mode set by the chmod executable. Default is '<code>g+u</code>'.
+            Specifies the mode set by the chmod executable. Default is '<code>775</code>'.
           </td>
         </tr>
         <tr>