diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e277e8f289..443486fc41 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ billiard==3.6.4.0
 blinker==1.4
 Brotli==1.0.9
 cachetools==4.2.2
-celery==5.0.5
+celery==5.2.2
 certifi==2020.12.5
 cffi==1.14.5
 chardet==4.0.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d0561d56e4..00f8b77071 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
         'Babel~=2.9.0',
         'backoff~=1.10.0',
         'beautifulsoup4>=4.9.3',
-        'celery~=5.0.5',
+        'celery>=5.0.5,<5.3.0',
         'factory-boy>=3.2.0',
         'Flask~=1.1.2',
         'Flask-Babel~=2.0.0',