diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0451e9c..5db1a7c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Pillow==4.2.1
 amqp==1.4.6
 beautifulsoup4==4.6.0
 bleach==2.1.3
-celery==3.1.18
+celery==5.2.2
 google-api-python-client==1.6.4
 oauth2client==2.2.0
 httplib2==0.10.3