diff --git a/network/misc/protobuf/actions.py b/network/misc/protobuf/actions.py
index 816a9083c7..ba8c8b54a5 100644
--- a/network/misc/protobuf/actions.py
+++ b/network/misc/protobuf/actions.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from pisi.actionsapi import get
 
 def setup():
     shelltools.export("PTHREAD_LIBS", "-lpthread")
-    shelltools.copy("../googletest-release-1.7.0", "gtest")
+    shelltools.copy("../googletest-release-1.8.0", "gtest")
     autotools.autoreconf("-vif")
     autotools.configure("--disable-static")
     
diff --git a/network/misc/protobuf/pspec.xml b/network/misc/protobuf/pspec.xml
index 89e1a97542..a288f77b73 100644
--- a/network/misc/protobuf/pspec.xml
+++ b/network/misc/protobuf/pspec.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
         <Summary>Google's data interchange format</Summary>
         <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.</Description>
         <Archive sha1sum="d403d06a8775375e7fe2557b38733205dfbc2e9e" type="targz">https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v3.6.1/protobuf-all-3.6.1.tar.gz</Archive>
-        <Archive sha1sum="d7aa4b8536f3a007b480cf016be8a4333dbf4768" type="targz">https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.7.0.tar.gz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="e7e646a6204638fe8e87e165292b8dd9cd4c36ed" type="targz">https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.8.0.tar.gz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>python-setuptools</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies>