diff --git a/libs/protobuf/Makefile b/libs/protobuf/Makefile
index 1553a7e..ea2a81f 100644
--- a/libs/protobuf/Makefile
+++ b/libs/protobuf/Makefile
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=protobuf
-PKG_VERSION:=2.5.0
+PKG_VERSION:=2.6.1
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
-PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
-PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://protobuf.googlecode.com/files
-PKG_MD5SUM:=a72001a9067a4c2c4e0e836d0f92ece4
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/$(PKG_VERSION)/
+PKG_MD5SUM:=f3916ce13b7fcb3072a1fa8cf02b2423
 
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=protobuf/host
 PKG_USE_MIPS16:=0
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ define Package/protobuf
 endef
 
 define Package/protobuf/description
- Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient
- yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all
- of its internal RPC protocols and file formats.
+  From package description:
+  "Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data - think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler.
+  You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages - Java, C++, or Python." 
 endef
 
 define Host/Compile