diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7be8383a..fe305d8e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ h5py==2.10.0
 ipdb==0.13.3
 hdfwriter==0.1.3
 GitPython==3.1.7
-celery==3.1.26.post2
+celery==5.2.2
 cryptography==3.0
 google-api-python-client==1.10.0
 google-auth-httplib2==0.0.4
diff --git a/requirements_cli.txt b/requirements_cli.txt
index cc00468e..e153017d 100644
--- a/requirements_cli.txt
+++ b/requirements_cli.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ h5py==2.10.0
 ipdb==0.13.3
 hdfwriter==0.1.3
 GitPython==3.1.7
-celery==3.1.26.post2
+celery==5.2.2
 cryptography==3.0
 google-api-python-client==1.10.0
 google-auth-httplib2==0.0.4