diff --git a/incubator/protobuf/features.xml b/incubator/protobuf/features.xml
index 2d7d5c2..c19a13b 100644
--- a/incubator/protobuf/features.xml
+++ b/incubator/protobuf/features.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     <feature name="${project.artifactId}" version="${project.version}"
              description="${project.description}">
         <feature>onos-api</feature>
-        <bundle>mvn:com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java/3.0.0-beta-2</bundle>
+        <bundle>mvn:com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java/3.0.0</bundle>
         <bundle>mvn:${project.groupId}/${project.artifactId}/${project.version}</bundle>
     </feature>
 </features>
diff --git a/incubator/protobuf/pom.xml b/incubator/protobuf/pom.xml
index 4be8695..10246c4 100644
--- a/incubator/protobuf/pom.xml
+++ b/incubator/protobuf/pom.xml
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
 
     <properties>
         <onos.app.name>org.onosproject.incubator.protobuf</onos.app.name>
-        <onos.app.requires>org.onosproject.incubator.rpc</onos.app.requires>
+        <onos.app.title>ONOS Protocol Buffers models</onos.app.title>
         <!-- Note: update feature.xml when updating -->
-        <protobuf.version>3.0.0-beta-2</protobuf.version>
+        <protobuf.version>3.0.0</protobuf.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@
                         depend on protobuf-java directly, you will be transitively depending on the 
                         protobuf-java version that grpc depends on. -->
                     <protocArtifact>com.google.protobuf:protoc:${protobuf.version}:exe:${os.detected.classifier}</protocArtifact>
-                    <checkStaleness>true</checkStaleness>
                 </configuration>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
@@ -143,7 +142,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                 <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.10</version>
+                <version>1.11</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <id>add-source</id>