diff --git a/docker/conf/celery.py b/docker/conf/celery.py
index 6d0c5a8e..6a386526 100644
--- a/docker/conf/celery.py
+++ b/docker/conf/celery.py
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ app = Celery('myauth')
 # Celery startup if it is unavailable.
 app.conf.broker_connection_retry_on_startup = True
 
+# Set a hard task execution time of 5 minutes before celery will cold restart
+app.conf.worker_soft_shutdown_timeout = 300
+app.conf.worker_enable_soft_shutdown_on_idle = True
+
 # Using a string here means the worker don't have to serialize
 # the configuration object to child processes.
 app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings')
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3e91e70c..2fd29ad7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ dynamic = [
 dependencies = [
     "bcrypt",
     "beautifulsoup4",
-    "celery>=5.4,<6",
+    "celery>=5.5,<6",
     "celery-once>=3.0.1",
     "django>=5.1,<5.2",
     "django-bootstrap-form",