diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f9df0dd5f6..f6f4d2fc90 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Markdown==2.4.1
 Pygments==1.6
 WTForms==1.0.4
 beautifulsoup4==4.3.2
-celery==3.1.17
+celery==5.2.2
 httplib2==0.9
 hurry.filesize==0.9
 itsdangerous==0.24