diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 005ea1e2066..103401cc840 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 bleach==2.1.2
 boto3==1.4.7
-celery==4.1.1
+celery==4.2.0
 colorama==0.3.9
 cryptography==1.9
 flask==0.12.2
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ geopy==1.11.0
 gunicorn==19.8.0
 humanize==0.5.1
 idna==2.6
-kombu==4.1.0
 markdown==2.6.11
 pandas==0.22.0
 parsedatetime==2.0.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fdcb7d78bcc..30a13e33a3c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ setup(
     install_requires=[
         'bleach',
         'boto3>=1.4.6',
-        'celery>=4.1.1',
+        'celery>=4.2.0',
         'colorama',
         'contextlib2',
         'cryptography',