diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 94b58a3..3ea439a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ django-simple-math-captcha==1.0.2
 gunicorn==0.14.2
 django-haystack==1.2.7
 pysolr==2.1.0-beta
-celery==2.5.3
+celery==5.2.2
 django-celery==2.5.5
 recaptcha-client==1.0.6
 django-templated-email==0.4.7