diff --git a/package/protobuf/Config.in b/package/protobuf/Config.in
index 6015b135e..bbb927f26 100644
--- a/package/protobuf/Config.in
+++ b/package/protobuf/Config.in
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PROTOBUF
 	  Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral,
 	  extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
 
-	  http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
+	  https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers
 
 comment "protobuf needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads"
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
diff --git a/package/protobuf/protobuf.mk b/package/protobuf/protobuf.mk
index 9043f989c..b42687397 100644
--- a/package/protobuf/protobuf.mk
+++ b/package/protobuf/protobuf.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PROTOBUF_VERSION = 2.5.0
-PROTOBUF_SITE = http://protobuf.googlecode.com/files
+PROTOBUF_VERSION = v2.5.0
+PROTOBUF_SITE = $(call github,google,protobuf,$(PROTOBUF_VERSION))
 PROTOBUF_LICENSE = BSD-3c
 PROTOBUF_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.txt