This document describes the current stable version of Celery (5.0). For development docs, go here .

Change history¶

This document contains change notes for bugfix & new features in the 5.0.x series, please see What’s new in Celery 5.0 (singularity) for an overview of what’s new in Celery 5.0.

5.0.0¶ release-date N/A release-by Omer Katz

5.0.0rc3¶ release-date 2020-09-07 4.00 P.M UTC+3:00 release-by Omer Katz More cleanups of leftover Python 2 support. (#6338)

5.0.0rc2¶ release-date 2020-09-01 6.30 P.M UTC+3:00 release-by Omer Katz Bump minimum required eventlet version to 0.26.1.

Update Couchbase Result backend to use SDK V3.

Restore monkeypatching when gevent or eventlet are used.

5.0.0rc1¶ release-date 2020-08-24 9.00 P.M UTC+3:00 release-by Omer Katz Allow to opt out of ordered group results when using the Redis result backend (#6290).

Breaking Change Remove the deprecated celery.utils.encoding module.

5.0.0b1¶ release-date 2020-08-19 8.30 P.M UTC+3:00 release-by Omer Katz Breaking Change Drop support for the Riak result backend (#5686).

Breaking Change pytest plugin is no longer enabled by default. (#6288) Install pytest-celery to enable it.

Breaking Change Brand new CLI based on Click (#5718).

5.0.0a2¶ release-date 2020-08-05 7.15 P.M UTC+3:00 release-by Omer Katz Bump Kombu version to 5.0 (#5686).