diff --git a/bitnami/moodle/4.4/debian-12/Dockerfile b/bitnami/moodle/4.4/debian-12/Dockerfile
index 42fadf1dfd06..1d5dc7f044cb 100644
--- a/bitnami/moodle/4.4/debian-12/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/moodle/4.4/debian-12/Dockerfile
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ ARG WITH_ALL_LOCALES="no"
 
 LABEL com.vmware.cp.artifact.flavor="sha256:c50c90cfd9d12b445b011e6ad529f1ad3daea45c26d20b00732fae3cd71f6a83" \
       org.opencontainers.image.base.name="docker.io/bitnami/minideb:bookworm" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.created="2024-08-02T14:16:25Z" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.created="2024-08-05T16:03:30Z" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Broadcom, Inc." \
       org.opencontainers.image.documentation="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/moodle/README.md" \
       org.opencontainers.image.licenses="Apache-2.0" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="4.4.1-debian-12-r7" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="4.4.1-debian-12-r8" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/moodle" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="moodle" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="Broadcom, Inc." \
diff --git a/bitnami/moodle/4.4/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/moodle/postunpack.sh b/bitnami/moodle/4.4/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/moodle/postunpack.sh
index df43c0fc06cd..2b23089df52c 100755
--- a/bitnami/moodle/4.4/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/moodle/postunpack.sh
+++ b/bitnami/moodle/4.4/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/moodle/postunpack.sh
@@ -72,3 +72,6 @@ RewriteRule "(\/Gruntfile\.js)" - [F]
 # Copy all initially generated configuration files to the default directory
 # (this is to avoid breaking when entrypoint is being overridden)
 cp -r "/opt/bitnami/$(web_server_type)/conf"/* "/opt/bitnami/$(web_server_type)/conf.default"
+
+# This is necessary for the libpersistence.sh scripts to work when running as non-root
+chmod g+w /opt/bitnami
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