diff --git a/requirements/basic.txt b/requirements/basic.txt
index b6a772d8..8502d7df 100644
--- a/requirements/basic.txt
+++ b/requirements/basic.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ wsgiref==0.1.2
 redis==2.9.1
 #Don't upgrade redis if we don't have redis-server>=2.6 installed
 #redis==2.10.3
-celery==3.1.17
+celery==5.2.2
 pytz==2014.10
 kombu==3.0.24
 mimeparse==0.1.3