diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b21954d11..38252ed92 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ urllib3==1.25.7
 Paver==1.3.4
 python-slugify==4.0.0
 decorator==4.4.1
-celery==4.3.0
+celery==5.2.2
 kombu==4.6.6
 boto3==1.10.26
 six<1.14.0