diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-c/protobuf3-compatibility.patch b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-c/protobuf3-compatibility.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3591495
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-c/protobuf3-compatibility.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+From 7456d1621223d425b8a3fd74e435a79c046169fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Robert Edmonds <edmonds@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 20:47:48 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] t/generated-code2/cxx-generate-packed-data.cc: Fix build
+ failure on newer protobuf
+
+ Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c/pull/369]
+
+google::protobuf::Message::Reflection has been removed in newer versions
+of protobuf. The replacement is google::protobuf::Reflection.
+
+protobuf in commit 779f61c6a3ce02a119e28e802f229e61b69b9046 ("Integrate
+recent changes from google3.", from August 2008) changed the following
+in message.h:
+
+    @@ -336,7 +337,8 @@ class LIBPROTOBUF_EXPORT Message {
+
+       // Introspection ---------------------------------------------------
+
+    -  class Reflection;  // Defined below.
+    +  // Typedef for backwards-compatibility.
+    +  typedef google::protobuf::Reflection Reflection;
+
+The "typedef for backwards-compatibility" apparently lasted ten years
+until protobuf commit 6bbe197e9c1b6fc38cbdc45e3bf83fa7ced792a3
+("Down-integrate from google3.", from August 2018) which finally removed
+the typedef:
+
+    @@ -327,8 +344,6 @@ class LIBPROTOBUF_EXPORT Message : public MessageLite {
+
+       // Introspection ---------------------------------------------------
+
+    -  // Typedef for backwards-compatibility.
+    -  typedef google::protobuf::Reflection Reflection;
+
+This commit updates the only use of this typedef (in the test suite) to
+directly refer to the replacement, google::protobuf::Reflection. This
+fixes the build failure in the test suite.
+---
+ t/generated-code2/cxx-generate-packed-data.cc | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/t/generated-code2/cxx-generate-packed-data.cc b/t/generated-code2/cxx-generate-packed-data.cc
+index 4fd3e25..0865d2e 100644
+--- a/t/generated-code2/cxx-generate-packed-data.cc
++++ b/t/generated-code2/cxx-generate-packed-data.cc
+@@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ static void dump_test_packed_repeated_enum (void)
+ static void dump_test_unknown_fields (void)
+ {
+   EmptyMess mess;
+-  const google::protobuf::Message::Reflection *reflection = mess.GetReflection();
++  const google::protobuf::Reflection *reflection = mess.GetReflection();
+   google::protobuf::UnknownFieldSet *fs = reflection->MutableUnknownFields(&mess);
+
+ #if GOOGLE_PROTOBUF_VERSION >= 2001000
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-c_1.3.1.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-c_1.3.1.bb
index 7ef0300..1d17823 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-c_1.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-c_1.3.1.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
 PV .= "+git${SRCPV}"
 SRCREV = "269771b4b45d3aba04e59569f53600003db8d9ff"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c.git"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c.git \
+           file://protobuf3-compatibility.patch \
+          "
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf/0001-Added-stubs-map_util.h-to-list-of-installed-headers.patch b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf/0001-Added-stubs-map_util.h-to-list-of-installed-headers.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a160e5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf/0001-Added-stubs-map_util.h-to-list-of-installed-headers.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+From ea6e776e50971c89ad2293046b6ae2a6a9753c56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Adam Cozzette <acozzette@google.com>
+Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:29:58 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] Added stubs/map_util.h to list of installed headers
+
+This should fix issue #6186. I also had to remove a couple unnecessary
+const keywords in map_util.h because the no_warning_test was showing
+errors about those.
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/pull/6223]
+---
+ src/Makefile.am                      | 1 +
+ src/google/protobuf/stubs/map_util.h | 4 ++--
+ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
+index be18ba76..1689e221 100644
+--- a/src/Makefile.am
++++ b/src/Makefile.am
+@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ nobase_include_HEADERS =                                         \
+   google/protobuf/stubs/hash.h                                   \
+   google/protobuf/stubs/logging.h                                \
+   google/protobuf/stubs/macros.h                                 \
++  google/protobuf/stubs/map_util.h                               \
+   google/protobuf/stubs/mutex.h                                  \
+   google/protobuf/stubs/once.h                                   \
+   google/protobuf/stubs/platform_macros.h                        \
+diff --git a/src/google/protobuf/stubs/map_util.h b/src/google/protobuf/stubs/map_util.h
+index 2313e1f5..b04d9d46 100644
+--- a/src/google/protobuf/stubs/map_util.h
++++ b/src/google/protobuf/stubs/map_util.h
+@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ bool UpdateReturnCopy(Collection* const collection,
+ // twice. Unlike UpdateReturnCopy this also does not come with the issue of an
+ // undefined previous* in case new data was inserted.
+ template <class Collection>
+-typename Collection::value_type::second_type* const
++typename Collection::value_type::second_type*
+ InsertOrReturnExisting(Collection* const collection,
+                        const typename Collection::value_type& vt) {
+   std::pair<typename Collection::iterator, bool> ret = collection->insert(vt);
+@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ InsertOrReturnExisting(Collection* const collection,
+
+ // Same as above, except for explicit key and data.
+ template <class Collection>
+-typename Collection::value_type::second_type* const
++typename Collection::value_type::second_type*
+ InsertOrReturnExisting(
+     Collection* const collection,
+     const typename Collection::value_type::first_type& key,
+--
+2.11.0
+
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_3.6.1.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_3.8.0.bb
similarity index 93%
rename from meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_3.6.1.bb
rename to meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_3.8.0.bb
index cf72d9c..476d1e3 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_3.6.1.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_3.8.0.bb
@@ -10,13 +10,12 @@
 DEPENDS = "zlib"
 DEPENDS_append_class-target = " protobuf-native"
 
-PV .= "+git${SRCPV}"
+SRCREV = "09745575a923640154bcf307fba8aedff47f240a"
 
-SRCREV = "48cb18e5c419ddd23d9badcfe4e9df7bde1979b2"
-
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/google/protobuf.git;branch=3.6.x \
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/google/protobuf.git;branch=3.8.x \
            file://run-ptest \
            file://0001-protobuf-fix-configure-error.patch \
+           file://0001-Added-stubs-map_util.h-to-list-of-installed-headers.patch \
 "
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"