diff --git a/package/protobuf/0001-configure.ac-check-if-libatomic-is-needed.patch b/package/protobuf/0001-configure.ac-check-if-libatomic-is-needed.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index fffdf49fac..0000000000
--- a/package/protobuf/0001-configure.ac-check-if-libatomic-is-needed.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-From f020fe05a20dfcd16cd7df833dcf3cdeef770538 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.ind.br>
-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:58:35 -0200
-Subject: [PATCH 2/2] configure.ac: check if libatomic is needed
-
-Compilation of protobuf for PowerPC and SPARC may fail due to missing
-references to __atomic_fetch_add_4 and __atomic_compare_exchange_4.
-
-The __atomic_*() intrinsics for all sizes are provided by libatomic when
-gcc is >= 4.8. This can be achieved by adding this to configure.ac:
-
-    AC_SEARCH_LIBS([__atomic_fetch_add_4], [atomic])
-
-Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.ind.br>
----
- configure.ac | 2 ++
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index c07067c..88d4a0d 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_PTHREAD], [test "x$acx_pthread_ok" = "xyes"])
- # We still keep this for improving pbconfig.h for unsupported platforms.
- AC_CXX_STL_HASH
- 
-+AC_SEARCH_LIBS([__atomic_load_4], [atomic])
-+
- case "$target_os" in
-   mingw* | cygwin* | win*)
-     ;;
--- 
-2.5.0
-
diff --git a/package/protobuf/Config.in b/package/protobuf/Config.in
index bece56c29e..03d118cfc1 100644
--- a/package/protobuf/Config.in
+++ b/package/protobuf/Config.in
@@ -13,10 +13,6 @@
 # *could* technically build with gcc 4.7. This is probably not a big deal,
 # and we can live with requiring gcc 4.8 on PowerPC to build protobuf.
 #
-# The SPARC64 build fails due to a missing definition of Atomic64. This
-# has been fixed on the master branch but the build still breaks due to
-# undefined references to internal NoBarrier_Atomic*() functions.
-#
 # host-protobuf only builds on certain architectures
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PROTOBUF_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	bool
@@ -24,8 +20,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PROTOBUF_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	default y if BR2_i386
 	default y if BR2_mipsel
 	default y if BR2_x86_64
+	default y if BR2_sparc64
 	default y if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ATOMIC
-	depends on !BR2_sparc64 # missing definition of Atomic64
 	depends on BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86_64" || BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
 
diff --git a/package/protobuf/protobuf.hash b/package/protobuf/protobuf.hash
index b681650a13..9ec6bc759d 100644
--- a/package/protobuf/protobuf.hash
+++ b/package/protobuf/protobuf.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256 f5b3563f118f1d3d6e001705fa7082e8fc3bda50038ac3dff787650795734146 protobuf-v3.0.0.tar.gz
+sha256 51d773e4297238b282eaa4c1dd317099675b12eef2b414732b851c00459225c6 protobuf-cpp-3.2.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/protobuf/protobuf.mk b/package/protobuf/protobuf.mk
index 72930c1fef..a3e96d4f89 100644
--- a/package/protobuf/protobuf.mk
+++ b/package/protobuf/protobuf.mk
@@ -7,12 +7,11 @@
 # When bumping this package, make sure to also verify if the
 # python-protobuf package still works, as they share the same
 # version/site variables.
-PROTOBUF_VERSION = v3.0.0
-PROTOBUF_SITE = $(call github,google,protobuf,$(PROTOBUF_VERSION))
+PROTOBUF_VERSION = 3.2.0
+PROTOBUF_SOURCE = protobuf-cpp-$(PROTOBUF_VERSION).tar.gz
+PROTOBUF_SITE = https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v$(PROTOBUF_VERSION)
 PROTOBUF_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 PROTOBUF_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
-# no configure script
-PROTOBUF_AUTORECONF = YES
 
 # N.B. Need to use host protoc during cross compilation.
 PROTOBUF_DEPENDENCIES = host-protobuf
diff --git a/package/python-protobuf/python-protobuf.hash b/package/python-protobuf/python-protobuf.hash
deleted file mode 120000
index 57a40ce5bd..0000000000
--- a/package/python-protobuf/python-protobuf.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../protobuf/protobuf.hash
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/package/python-protobuf/python-protobuf.hash b/package/python-protobuf/python-protobuf.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c87403f247
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-protobuf/python-protobuf.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Locally calculated
+sha256 c574e2b2178ffe66599274e8cfa11ecf83799a7992be30f0b68fb33ea0a0f1af protobuf-python-3.2.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/python-protobuf/python-protobuf.mk b/package/python-protobuf/python-protobuf.mk
index 5a6488918a..b91ba49339 100644
--- a/package/python-protobuf/python-protobuf.mk
+++ b/package/python-protobuf/python-protobuf.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PYTHON_PROTOBUF_VERSION = $(PROTOBUF_VERSION)
-PYTHON_PROTOBUF_SOURCE = $(PROTOBUF_SOURCE)
+PYTHON_PROTOBUF_SOURCE = protobuf-python-$(PYTHON_PROTOBUF_VERSION).tar.gz
 PYTHON_PROTOBUF_SITE = $(PROTOBUF_SITE)
 PYTHON_PROTOBUF_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 PYTHON_PROTOBUF_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE