diff --git a/server/requirements.txt b/server/requirements.txt
index 75b05dfe..8005092c 100644
--- a/server/requirements.txt
+++ b/server/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Flask-Testing==0.4.2
 Flask-WTF==0.10.3
 bcrypt==2.0.0
 python-dateutil==2.2
-celery==3.1.16
+celery==4.4.0rc5
 redis==2.10.3
 requests==2.4.3
 xmltodict==0.9.0