diff --git a/smartsim/_core/_cli/scripts/dragon_install.py b/smartsim/_core/_cli/scripts/dragon_install.py
index 3a9358390b..7a7d75f1d2 100644
--- a/smartsim/_core/_cli/scripts/dragon_install.py
+++ b/smartsim/_core/_cli/scripts/dragon_install.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 logger = get_logger(__name__)
 
 DEFAULT_DRAGON_REPO = "DragonHPC/dragon"
-DEFAULT_DRAGON_VERSION = "0.9"
+DEFAULT_DRAGON_VERSION = "0.10"
 DEFAULT_DRAGON_VERSION_TAG = f"v{DEFAULT_DRAGON_VERSION}"
 _GH_TOKEN = "SMARTSIM_DRAGON_TOKEN"
 
diff --git a/tests/_legacy/test_dragon_installer.py b/tests/_legacy/test_dragon_installer.py
index a58d711721..8a58e5b91b 100644
--- a/tests/_legacy/test_dragon_installer.py
+++ b/tests/_legacy/test_dragon_installer.py
@@ -433,15 +433,34 @@ def test_install_package_no_wheel(test_dir: str, extraction_dir: pathlib.Path):
     assert result != 0
 
 
-def test_install_macos(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, extraction_dir: pathlib.Path):
-    """Verify that installation exits cleanly if installing on unsupported platform"""
-    with monkeypatch.context() as ctx:
-        ctx.setattr(sys, "platform", "darwin")
-
-        request = DragonInstallRequest(extraction_dir)
-
-        result = install_dragon(request)
-        assert result == 1
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "version, exp_result",
+    [
+        pytest.param("0.9", 2, id="0.9 DNE In Public Repo"),
+        pytest.param("0.91", 2, id="0.91 DNE In Public Repo"),
+        pytest.param("0.10", 0, id="0.10 Exists In Public Repo"),
+        pytest.param("0.19", 2, id="0.19 DNE In Public Repo"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_install_specify_asset_version(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+    extraction_dir: pathlib.Path,
+    version: str,
+    exp_result: int,
+):
+    """Verify that installation completes as expected when fed a variety of
+    version numbers that can or cannot be found on release assets of the
+    public dragon repository.
+
+    :param extraction_dir: file system path where the dragon package should
+    be downloaded and extracted
+    :param version: Dragon version number to attempt to install
+    :param exp_result: Expected return code from the call to `install_dragon`
+    """
+    request = DragonInstallRequest(extraction_dir, version=version)
+
+    result = install_dragon(request)
+    assert result == exp_result
 
 
 def test_create_dotenv(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, test_dir: str):