diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a0b332e8..7fe663e8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Changed
+
+- Upgrade to django-storages 1.9.1
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - With the django storages S3 backend, `MEDIA_URL` should not start with a "/"
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 1089a146..c9b15712 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Django<3
 django-configurations==2.2
 # Superior versions of django-storages are not compatible with
 # ManifestStaticFilesStorage
-django-storages==1.8
+django-storages==1.9.1
 dockerflow==2019.10.0
 gunicorn==20.0.4
 psycopg2-binary==2.8.5
diff --git a/src/backend/funmooc/settings.py b/src/backend/funmooc/settings.py
index ddfde5da..ce10962b 100644
--- a/src/backend/funmooc/settings.py
+++ b/src/backend/funmooc/settings.py
@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ class Production(Base):
     X_FRAME_OPTIONS = "SAMEORIGIN"
 
     DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = "funmooc.storage.MediaStorage"
+    AWS_DEFAULT_ACL = None
     MEDIA_URL = "media/"
 
     # For static files in production, we want to use a backend that includes a hash in