docs/history/whatsnew-5.4.rst
.. _whatsnew-5.4:
:Author: Tomer Nosrati (tomer.nosrati at gmail.com).
.. sidebar:: Change history
What's new documents describe the changes in major versions,
we also have a :ref:`changelog` that lists the changes in bugfix
releases (0.0.x), while older series are archived under the :ref:`history`
section.
Celery is a simple, flexible, and reliable distributed programming framework to process vast amounts of messages, while providing operations with the tools required to maintain a distributed system with python.
It's a task queue with focus on real-time processing, while also supporting task scheduling.
Celery has a large and diverse community of users and contributors,
you should come join us :ref:on IRC <irc-channel>
or :ref:our mailing-list <mailing-list>.
.. note::
Following the problems with Freenode, we migrated our IRC channel to Libera Chat
as most projects did.
You can also join us using `Gitter <https://gitter.im/celery/celery>`_.
We're sometimes there to answer questions. We welcome you to join.
To read more about Celery you should go read the :ref:introduction <intro>.
While this version is mostly backward compatible with previous versions it's important that you read the following section as this release is a new major version.
This version is officially supported on CPython 3.8, 3.9 & 3.10 and is also supported on PyPy3.8+.
.. _website: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/
.. topic:: Table of Contents
Make sure you read the important notes before upgrading to this version.
.. contents:: :local: :depth: 2
.. note::
**This release contains fixes for many long standing bugs & stability issues.
We encourage our users to upgrade to this release as soon as possible.**
The 5.4.0 release is a new feature release for Celery.
Releases in the 5.x series are codenamed after songs of Jon Hopkins <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hopkins>.
This release has been codenamed Opalescent <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ByfK25WsMM>.
From now on we only support Python 3.8 and above. We will maintain compatibility with Python 3.8 until it's EOL in 2024.
— Tomer Nosrati
We no longer support Celery 4.x as we don't have the resources to do so. If you'd like to help us, all contributions are welcome.
Celery 5.x is not an LTS release. We will support it until the release of Celery 6.x.
We're in the process of defining our Long Term Support policy. Watch the next "What's New" document for updates.
.. note::
This wall was automatically generated from git history,
so sadly it doesn't not include the people who help with more important
things like answering mailing-list questions.
Celery 5.0 introduces a new CLI implementation which isn't completely backwards compatible.
The global options can no longer be positioned after the sub-command.
Instead, they must be positioned as an option for the celery command like so::
celery --app path.to.app worker
If you were using our :ref:daemonizing guide to deploy Celery in production,
you should revisit it for updates.
If you haven't already updated your configuration when you migrated to Celery 4.0, please do so now.
We elected to extend the deprecation period until 6.0 since we did not loudly warn about using these deprecated settings.
Please refer to the :ref:migration guide <conf-old-settings-map> for instructions.
Make sure you are not affected by any of the important upgrade notes
mentioned in the :ref:following section <v500-important>.
You should verify that none of the breaking changes in the CLI
do not affect you. Please refer to :ref:New Command Line Interface <new_command_line_interface> for details.
Celery 5.x only supports Python 3. Therefore, you must ensure your code is compatible with Python 3.
If you haven't ported your code to Python 3, you must do so before upgrading.
You can use tools like 2to3 <https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/2to3.html>_
and pyupgrade <https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade>_ to assist you with
this effort.
After the migration is done, run your test suite with Celery 4 to ensure nothing has been broken.
At this point you can upgrade your workers and clients with the new version.
.. _v540-important:
The supported Python versions are:
pypy3)Experimental support
Celery supports these Python versions provisionally as they are not production
ready yet:
- CPython 3.11
Quality Improvements and Stability Enhancements
-----------------------------------------------
Celery 5.4 focuses on elevating the overall quality and stability of the project.
We have dedicated significant efforts to address various bugs, enhance performance,
and make improvements based on valuable user feedback.
Better Compatibility and Upgrade Confidence
-------------------------------------------
Our goal with Celery 5.4 is to instill confidence in users who are currently
using Celery 4 or older versions. We want to assure you that upgrading to
Celery 5.4 will provide a more robust and reliable experience.
Dropped support for Python 3.7
------------------------------
Celery now requires Python 3.8 and above.
Python 3.7 will reach EOL in June, 2023.
In order to focus our efforts we have dropped support for Python 3.6 in
this version.
If you still require to run Celery using Python 3.7
you can still use Celery 5.2.
However we encourage you to upgrade to a supported Python version since
no further security patches will be applied for Python 3.7 after
the 23th of June, 2023.
Kombu
-----
Starting from v5.4.0, the minimum required version is Kombu 5.3.
Redis
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redis-py 4.5.x is the new minimum required version.
SQLAlchemy
---------------------
SQLAlchemy 1.4.x & 2.0.x is now supported in celery v5.4
Billiard
-------------------
Minimum required version is now 4.1.0
Deprecate pytz and use zoneinfo
-------------------------------
A switch have been made to zoneinfo for handling timezone data instead of pytz.
Django
------
Minimum django version is bumped to v2.2.28.
Also added --skip-checks flag to bypass django core checks.