diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 791c909..795df8e 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Pillow==2.6.0
 
 # Your custom requirements go here
 Fabric==1.10.0
-celery==3.1.16
+celery==5.2.2
 django-celery==3.1.16
 kombu==3.0.24
 lxml==3.4.0