diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/protobuf/3.7.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/protobuf/3.7.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9bfb307e3286..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/protobuf/3.7.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-{ callPackage, ... }:
-
-callPackage ./generic-v3.nix {
-  version = "3.7.1";
-  sha256 = "00zkijvj80bmhlj8290x4bc416mng2dlbzwc4bkvfmbal1fx93m2";
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index b2f6dc7f3781..34f0317b5d25 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -944,6 +944,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   prometheus-dmarc-exporter = dmarc-metrics-exporter; # added 2022-05-31
   prometheus-mesos-exporter = throw "prometheus-mesos-exporter is deprecated and archived by upstream"; # Added 2022-04-05
   prometheus-unifi-exporter = throw "prometheus-unifi-exporter is deprecated and archived by upstream, use unifi-poller instead"; # Added 2022-06-03
+  protobuf3_7 = throw "protobuf3_7 does not receive updates anymore and has been removed"; # Added 2022-10-03
   protobuf3_11 = throw "protobuf3_11 does not receive updates anymore and has been removed"; # Added 2022-09-28
   proxytunnel = throw "proxytunnel has been removed from nixpkgs, because it has not been update upstream since it was added to nixpkgs in 2008 and has therefore bitrotted."; # added 2021-12-15
   pulseaudio-hsphfpd = throw "pulseaudio-hsphfpd upstream has been abandoned"; # Added 2022-03-23
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1cd29f183836..10f70743cb1d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -21351,7 +21351,6 @@ with pkgs;
   protobuf3_19 = callPackage ../development/libraries/protobuf/3.19.nix { };
   protobuf3_17 = callPackage ../development/libraries/protobuf/3.17.nix { };
   protobuf3_8 = callPackage ../development/libraries/protobuf/3.8.nix { };
-  protobuf3_7 = callPackage ../development/libraries/protobuf/3.7.nix { };
 
   protobufc = callPackage ../development/libraries/protobufc { };