diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 03622555..52953774 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ gunicorn==20.0.4
 requests==2.24.0
 psycopg2==2.8.5
 jsonschema==3.2.0
-celery==4.4.5
+celery==5.2.2
 redis==3.5.3
 cryptography==3.0
 markdown2==2.3.9