How to update the binaries other than `protoc-linux-x86_64.exe` and `protoc-linux-arm32.exe`: 1. Go to http://search.maven.org/ 2. Search for g:"com.google.protobuf" 3. Download the "jar" link from protobuf-java. 4. Download all binaries from "protoc". 5. Strip version number from protoc files: for `i in *.exe; do mv $i $(echo $i | sed s/3.0.0-beta-2-//); done` 6. Set executable bit: `chmod +x *.exe` 7. Update third_party/BUILD to point to the new jar file. 8. Done. The 64-bit Linux version of the proto compiler is linked statically. To update it, do the following steps on an x86_64 machine: 1. `git clone http://github.com/google/protobuf.git` 2. `git checkout ` (current is `d5fb408d` or `3.0.0-beta-2`) 3. `./autogen.sh` 4. `LDFLAGS=-static ./configure` 5. Change `LDFLAGS = -static` to `LDFLAGS = -all-static` in `src/Makefile`. 6. `make` 7. `cp src/protoc /third_party/protobuf/protoc-linux-x86_64.exe` . How to update the `src/` directory: 1. `git clone http://github.com/google/protobuf.git` 2. `git checkout ` (current is `d5fb408d` or `3.0.0-beta-2`) 2. `mkdir -p third_party/protobuf/src/google` in the root of the Bazel tree. 3. `cp -R /src/google/protobuf third_party/protobuf/src/google` 4. Update rules in `third_party/protobuf/BUILD` with the rules in the protobuf repository. 5. Done.