Celery 4 lifecycle
Current status
Celery 4 is currently in standard support.
Security: 2 tracked advisories affecting this line. Details below — lifecycle and vulnerability status are separate.
Official lifecycle source: Celery PyPI releases
- Support phase
- standard support
- End of life
- Not officially published
- Latest release
- 4.0.1
- Released
- 9 Dec 2016
At a glance
- Version line
- 4
- Initial release
- 4 Nov 2016
- Lifecycle phase
- standard support
- Latest stable
- 4.0.1
- Latest release date
- 9 Dec 2016
- EOL
- Not officially published
- Risk
- low
- Releases tracked
- 18
Lifecycle timeline
Phases from published LifecyclePeriod records. Missing phases are not inferred.
Release
4 Nov 2016
standard supportcurrent
4 Nov 2016 → —
Source: Celery PyPI releases
Celery 4 is currently in standard support.
Upgrade options
Newer supported Celery version lines from CompatHub lifecycle data. Compatibility and security context use existing evidence only.
You are on Celery 4
Supported
Supported upgrade options
- Celery 5Upgrade planner →Supported· 1 major version newer
Security
Advisories affecting Celery 4 (OSV.dev evidence). Known exploited status, due dates, and ransomware use from CISA KEV when matched.
- Known vulnerabilities
- 2
- Known exploited
- 0
- Highest CVSS
- —
- CVE-2021-23727GHSA-q4xr-rc97-m4xx
OS Command Injection in celery
- Affected:
- <5.2.2
- Fixed in:
- 5.2.2
- Source:
- OSV source · Advisory
- CVE-2021-23727PYSEC-2021-858
- Affected:
- <5.2.2
- Fixed in:
- 5.2.2
- Source:
- OSV source · Advisory
Latest release
Previous releases
4.0.2
16 Dec 2016
4.1.0
24 Jul 2017
4.0.0
4 Nov 2016
Release history
18 concrete releases tracked for this line.
| Version | Release date | Channel | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0.0 | 4 Nov 2016 | stable | Source |
| 4.0.1 | 9 Dec 2016 | stable | Source |
| 4.0.2 | 16 Dec 2016 | stable | Source |
| 4.1.0 | 24 Jul 2017 | stable | Source |
| 4.1.1 | 21 May 2018 | stable | Source |
| 4.2.0 | 10 Jun 2018 | stable | Source |
| 4.2.1 | 18 Jul 2018 | stable | Source |
| 4.2.2 | 20 Mar 2019 | stable | Source |
| 4.3.0 | 31 Mar 2019 | stable | Source |
| 4.3.1 | 10 Sept 2020 | stable | Source |
| 4.4.0 | 16 Dec 2019 | stable | Source |
| 4.4.1 | 2 Mar 2020 | stable | Source |
| 4.4.2 | 17 Mar 2020 | stable | Source |
| 4.4.3 | 1 Jun 2020 | stable | Source |
| 4.4.4 | 3 Jun 2020 | stable | Source |
| 4.4.5 | 8 Jun 2020 | stable | Source |
| 4.4.6 | 24 Jun 2020 | stable | Source |
| 4.4.7 | 31 Jul 2020 | stable | Source |
Release activity
- Total releases
- 18
- Last 30 days
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Avg. interval
- ~83 days
- Most recent
- 9 Dec 2016
Should I use this version?
Suitable for new deployments
Celery 4 is currently supported (standard support).
Version comparison
Compact comparison against the nearest relevant release lines.
Compatibility
Evidence-backed compatibility results involving Celery 4. Only combinations CompatHub can evaluate from upstream sources are listed.
Compatible targets
Sources
Where this information comes from.
Lifecycle sources
- Celery PyPI releasesfirst party · high confidence
Official source: https://pypi.org/project/celery/
Last verified 2 Sept 2026
- OSV.devfirst party
Official source: https://osv.dev
Verification time not recorded
- NVD (NIST)first party
Official source: https://nvd.nist.gov
Verification time not recorded
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilitiesfirst party
Official source: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
Verification time not recorded
Release sources
- Celery PyPI releasesfirst party · high confidence
Official source: https://pypi.org/project/celery/
Last verified 2 Sept 2026
Data coverage
Last checked = last successful upstream check. Latest source update = when upstream content last changed.
- Releases tracked
- 18
- Lifecycle periods
- 1
- EOL
- Not officially published
- Provenance records
- 2
- Data last checked
- 2 Sept 2026
- Latest source update
- 2 Sept 2026
EOL: Not officially published