diff --git a/actix-protobuf/CHANGES.md b/actix-protobuf/CHANGES.md
index 1a5c003a6..16b025a76 100644
--- a/actix-protobuf/CHANGES.md
+++ b/actix-protobuf/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## Unreleased - 2020-xx-xx
 * Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.51.
+* Bump `prost` version to 0.8. [#197]
+
+[#197]: https://github.com/actix/actix-extras/pull/197
 
 
 ## 0.7.0-beta.1 - 2020-06-27
diff --git a/actix-protobuf/Cargo.toml b/actix-protobuf/Cargo.toml
index b99f5db16..1da072ae7 100644
--- a/actix-protobuf/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-protobuf/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ actix-rt = "2"
 actix-web = { version = "4.0.0-beta.8", default_features = false }
 derive_more = "0.99.5"
 futures-util = { version = "0.3.7", default-features = false }
-prost = "0.7"
+prost = { version = "0.8", default_features = false }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-prost-derive = "0.7"
+prost = { version = "0.8", default_features = false, features = ["prost-derive"] }
diff --git a/actix-protobuf/examples/prost-example/Cargo.toml b/actix-protobuf/examples/prost-example/Cargo.toml
index 140345573..c1b8cdcdd 100644
--- a/actix-protobuf/examples/prost-example/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-protobuf/examples/prost-example/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,5 +12,4 @@ actix-web = "4.0.0-beta.8"
 actix-protobuf = { path = "../../" }
 
 env_logger = "0.8"
-prost = "0.7"
-prost-derive = "0.7"
+prost = {version = "0.8", default_features = false, features = ["prost-derive"] }
diff --git a/actix-protobuf/examples/prost-example/src/main.rs b/actix-protobuf/examples/prost-example/src/main.rs
index 0e283384c..8dab194d7 100644
--- a/actix-protobuf/examples/prost-example/src/main.rs
+++ b/actix-protobuf/examples/prost-example/src/main.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use actix_protobuf::*;
 use actix_web::*;
-use prost_derive::Message;
+use prost::Message;
 
 #[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Message)]
 pub struct MyObj {