# protobuf.js: what changed from 7 to 8

- Product: protobuf.js (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs)
- Vendor: protobufjs
- Range: changelog entries numbered after 7.6.6 up to and including 8.8.0, stable releases only
- Entries below: 12 releases (newest first)
- Resolved: 7 is 7.6.6 and 8 is 8.8.0, the newest stable release of each major we track
- Carrying security changes: 0 · CVEs mentioned: 0 · Mentioning breaking changes: 0 · Removing or deprecating something: 0
- Page: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/compare/7...8

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

## What changed (0 changes, grouped by kind)

_No categorized changes yet; the release notes below are all there is._

_12 releases carry no categorized changes yet: 8.8.0, 8.7.2, 8.7.1, 8.7.0, 8.6.6, 8.6.5, 8.6.4, 8.6.3, 8.6.2, 8.6.1, 8.6.0, 8.5.0._

## Release notes

### 8.8.0

- Date: 2026-08-27
- Version: 8.8.0
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.8.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.8.0

### 8.7.2

- Date: 2026-08-08
- Version: 8.7.2
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.7.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.7.2

### 8.7.1

- Date: 2026-07-13
- Version: 8.7.1
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.7.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.7.1

### 8.7.0

- Date: 2026-07-06
- Version: 8.7.0
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.7.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.7.0

### 8.6.6

- Date: 2026-07-04
- Version: 8.6.6
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.6.6
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.6.6

### 8.6.5

- Date: 2026-06-23
- Version: 8.6.5
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.6.5
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.6.5

### 8.6.4

- Date: 2026-06-16
- Version: 8.6.4
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.6.4
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.6.4

### 8.6.3

- Date: 2026-06-11
- Version: 8.6.3
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.6.3
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.6.3

### 8.6.2

- Date: 2026-06-09
- Version: 8.6.2
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.6.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.6.2

### 8.6.1

- Date: 2026-06-07
- Version: 8.6.1
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.6.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.6.1

### 8.6.0

- Date: 2026-06-04
- Version: 8.6.0
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.6.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.6.0

### 8.5.0

- Date: 2026-05-29
- Version: 8.5.0
- Original notes: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs/v/8.5.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/protobufjs/releases/8.5.0