diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f55d10f16..c8d1ceacf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
         'django-compressor==2.4',
         'python-dateutil==2.8.1',
         'django-celery-results==2.0.0',
-        'celery==5.0.2',
+        'celery==5.2.2',
         'MarkupSafe==1.1.1', # required for python 3.5
         'six==1.15.0',
         # the following is necessary due to https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata/issues/411