diff --git a/contentcuration/contentcuration/celery.py b/contentcuration/contentcuration/celery.py
index d9186c2aed..9f74f2d2fc 100644
--- a/contentcuration/contentcuration/celery.py
+++ b/contentcuration/contentcuration/celery.py
@@ -3,9 +3,12 @@
 from django.conf import settings
 
 from contentcuration.utils.celery.app import CeleryApp
+from contentcuration.utils.celery.tasks import CeleryTask
 
 # set the default Django settings module for the 'celery' program.
 os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "contentcuration.settings")
 
-app = CeleryApp("contentcuration")
+# Celery update now requires that we must pass the task_cls to the CeleryApp, instead
+# of setting it as an attribute on our custom Celery class
+app = CeleryApp("contentcuration", task_cls=CeleryTask)
 app.config_from_object(settings.CELERY)
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index fca38bf59b..2a0c50e4b7 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ djangorestframework==3.15.1
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.5
 django-js-reverse==0.9.1
 django-registration==3.4
-le-utils==0.2.5
+le-utils==0.2.7
 gunicorn==23.0.0
 django-postmark==0.1.6
 jsonfield==3.1.0
-celery==5.2.7
+celery==5.4.0
 redis
 python-postmark==0.6.0
 Django==3.2.24
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index cf3527a5ca..d4a67afded 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ attrs==23.1.0
     # via jsonschema
 backoff==2.2.1
     # via -r requirements.in
-billiard==3.6.4.0
+billiard==4.2.1
     # via celery
 boto3==1.17.75
     # via django-s3-storage
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ botocore==1.20.75
     #   s3transfer
 cachetools==4.2.2
     # via google-auth
-celery==5.2.7
+celery==5.4.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements.in
     #   django-celery-results
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ jsonfield==3.1.0
     # via -r requirements.in
 jsonschema==4.17.3
     # via -r requirements.in
-kombu==5.2.4
+kombu==5.4.2
     # via celery
 le-utils==0.2.7
     # via -r requirements.in
@@ -198,11 +198,11 @@ python-dateutil==2.8.2
     # via
     #   -r requirements.in
     #   botocore
+    #   celery
 python-postmark==0.6.0
     # via -r requirements.in
 pytz==2022.1
     # via
-    #   celery
     #   django
     #   django-postmark
     #   google-api-core
@@ -232,12 +232,16 @@ six==1.16.0
     #   python-dateutil
 sqlparse==0.4.1
     # via django
+tzdata==2024.2
+    # via
+    #   celery
+    #   kombu
 urllib3==1.26.18
     # via
     #   botocore
     #   requests
     #   sentry-sdk
-vine==5.0.0
+vine==5.1.0
     # via
     #   amqp
     #   celery