diff --git a/docker/install.sh b/docker/install.sh
index e1a87181..d1be570f 100755
--- a/docker/install.sh
+++ b/docker/install.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ DATABASES = {
         'PORT': 5432,
     }
 }
-CELERY_BROKER_URL = "amqp://{0}:{1}@rabbitmq:5672//".format(os.environ.get('RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_USER'), os.environ.get('RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_PASS'))
+BROKER_URL = "amqp://{0}:{1}@rabbitmq:5672//".format(os.environ.get('RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_USER'), os.environ.get('RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_PASS'))
 XACCELREDIRECT = True
 
 DEBUG = False
diff --git a/etc/systemd/system/pandora-cron.service b/etc/systemd/system/pandora-cron.service
index 9f1ef157..778a821d 100644
--- a/etc/systemd/system/pandora-cron.service
+++ b/etc/systemd/system/pandora-cron.service
@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@ User=pandora
 Group=pandora
 PIDFile=/run/pandora/cron.pid
 WorkingDirectory=/srv/pandora/pandora
-ExecStart=/srv/pandora/bin/celery \
-    -A app beat \
-    -s /run/pandora/celerybeat-schedule \
+ExecStart=/srv/pandora/bin/python /srv/pandora/pandora/manage.py \
+    celerybeat -s /run/pandora/celerybeat-schedule \
     --pidfile /run/pandora/cron.pid \
     -l INFO
 ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
diff --git a/etc/systemd/system/pandora-encoding.service b/etc/systemd/system/pandora-encoding.service
index b2a48626..f56f0eb2 100644
--- a/etc/systemd/system/pandora-encoding.service
+++ b/etc/systemd/system/pandora-encoding.service
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ User=pandora
 Group=pandora
 PIDFile=/run/pandora/encoding.pid
 WorkingDirectory=/srv/pandora/pandora
-ExecStart=/srv/pandora/bin/celery \
-    -A app worker \
+ExecStart=/srv/pandora/bin/python /srv/pandora/pandora/manage.py \
+    celery worker \
     -Q encoding -n pandora-encoding \
     --pidfile /run/pandora/encoding.pid \
     --maxtasksperchild 500 \
diff --git a/etc/systemd/system/pandora-tasks.service b/etc/systemd/system/pandora-tasks.service
index 19cf04af..5972e8b3 100644
--- a/etc/systemd/system/pandora-tasks.service
+++ b/etc/systemd/system/pandora-tasks.service
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ User=pandora
 Group=pandora
 PIDFile=/run/pandora/tasks.pid
 WorkingDirectory=/srv/pandora/pandora
-ExecStart=/srv/pandora/bin/celery \
-    -A app worker \
+ExecStart=/srv/pandora/bin/python /srv/pandora/pandora/manage.py \
+    celery worker \
     -Q default,celery -n pandora-default \
     --pidfile /run/pandora/tasks.pid \
     --maxtasksperchild 1000 \
diff --git a/pandora/app/__init__.py b/pandora/app/__init__.py
index 62c4f9ac..e69de29b 100644
--- a/pandora/app/__init__.py
+++ b/pandora/app/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-
-from .celery import app as celery_app
-
-__all__ = ('celery_app',)
diff --git a/pandora/app/celery.py b/pandora/app/celery.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 710d0d0e..00000000
--- a/pandora/app/celery.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-import os
-
-from celery import Celery
-
-root_dir = os.path.normpath(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
-root_dir = os.path.dirname(root_dir)
-os.chdir(root_dir)
-
-# set the default Django settings module for the 'celery' program.
-os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'settings')
-
-app = Celery('pandora')
-
-# Using a string here means the worker doesn't have to serialize
-# the configuration object to child processes.
-# - namespace='CELERY' means all celery-related configuration keys
-#   should have a `CELERY_` prefix.
-app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings', namespace='CELERY')
-
-# Load task modules from all registered Django app configs.
-app.autodiscover_tasks()
diff --git a/pandora/app/monkey_patch.py b/pandora/app/monkey_patch.py
index 8f48af00..b106e224 100644
--- a/pandora/app/monkey_patch.py
+++ b/pandora/app/monkey_patch.py
@@ -32,19 +32,4 @@ def monkey_patch_username():
         if isinstance(v, MaxLengthValidator):
             v.limit_value = 255
 
-def apply_patch():
-    from django.db import connection, transaction
-    cursor = connection.cursor()
-    table = connection.introspection.get_table_description(cursor, User._meta.db_table)
-    sql = []
-    for row in table:
-        if row.name in NEW_LENGTH and row.internal_size != NEW_LENGTH[row.name]:
-            sql.append('ALTER TABLE "%s" ALTER "%s" TYPE varchar(%d)' % (User._meta.db_table, row.name, NEW_LENGTH[row.name]))
-
-    for q in sql:
-        cursor.execute(q)
-    if sql:
-        transaction.commit()
-
-
 monkey_patch_username()
diff --git a/pandora/archive/views.py b/pandora/archive/views.py
index 62731fc8..3112d193 100644
--- a/pandora/archive/views.py
+++ b/pandora/archive/views.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from django.db.models import Count, Q
 
 from six import string_types
 from celery.utils import get_full_cls_name
-from celery._state import current_app
+from celery.backends import default_backend
 import ox
 from oxdjango.decorators import login_required_json
 from oxdjango.shortcuts import render_to_json_response, get_object_or_404_json, json_response
@@ -390,11 +390,8 @@ def getTaskStatus(request, data):
     else:
         task_id = data['task_id']
     response = json_response(status=200, text='ok')
-
-    backend = current_app.backend
-    status = backend.get_status(task_id)
-    res = backend.get_result(task_id)
-
+    status = default_backend.get_status(task_id)
+    res = default_backend.get_result(task_id)
     response['data'] = {
         'id': task_id,
         'status': status
@@ -403,8 +400,8 @@ def getTaskStatus(request, data):
         response['data'].update(res)
     else:
         response['data']['result'] = res
-    if status in backend.EXCEPTION_STATES:
-        traceback = backend.get_traceback(task_id)
+    if status in default_backend.EXCEPTION_STATES:
+        traceback = default_backend.get_traceback(task_id)
         response['data'].update({
             'result': str(res),
             'exc': get_full_cls_name(res.__class__),
diff --git a/pandora/item/management/commands/sqlfindindex.py b/pandora/item/management/commands/sqlfindindex.py
index 3ecba6a8..c651e18f 100644
--- a/pandora/item/management/commands/sqlfindindex.py
+++ b/pandora/item/management/commands/sqlfindindex.py
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
                 print(sql)
             cursor.execute(sql)
 
-        app.monkey_patch.apply_patch()
-
         if settings.DB_GIN_TRGM:
             import entity.models
             import document.models
diff --git a/pandora/settings.py b/pandora/settings.py
index 1e8f1d56..b57d0d31 100644
--- a/pandora/settings.py
+++ b/pandora/settings.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import
 
 import os
 from os.path import join, normpath, dirname
+import djcelery
+djcelery.setup_loader()
 
 BASE_DIR = PROJECT_ROOT = normpath(dirname(__file__))
 BIN_DIR = normpath(join(PROJECT_ROOT, '..', 'bin'))
@@ -120,7 +122,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'django.contrib.humanize',
 
     'django_extensions',
-    'django_celery_results',
+    'djcelery',
     'app',
     'log',
     'annotation',
@@ -195,12 +197,12 @@ DATABASES = {
 }
 
 #rabbitmq connection settings
-CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = 'django-db'
+CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = 'database'
 CELERY_TASK_SERIALIZER = 'json'
 CELERY_RESULT_SERIALIZER = 'json'
 CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT = ['json']
 
-CELERY_BROKER_URL = 'amqp://pandora:box@localhost:5672//pandora'
+BROKER_URL = 'amqp://pandora:box@localhost:5672//pandora'
 
 SEND_CELERY_ERROR_EMAILS = False
 
@@ -262,10 +264,6 @@ COLLECTION_ICON = join(SCRIPT_ROOT, 'list_icon.py')
 
 DB_GIN_TRGM = False
 
-ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
-SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
-
-DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE = 32 * 1024 * 1024
 
 RELOADER_RUNNING = False
 #you can ignore things below this line
@@ -297,4 +295,7 @@ except NameError:
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = tuple(list(INSTALLED_APPS) + LOCAL_APPS)
 
+ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
+SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
 
+DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE = 32 * 1024 * 1024
diff --git a/pandora/taskqueue/models.py b/pandora/taskqueue/models.py
index 6a36e3bf..839aff39 100644
--- a/pandora/taskqueue/models.py
+++ b/pandora/taskqueue/models.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from __future__ import division, print_function, absolute_import
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from time import time
 
+from celery.backends import default_backend
 from celery.utils import get_full_cls_name
 from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
 from django.conf import settings
diff --git a/pandora/websocket/worker.py b/pandora/websocket/worker.py
index 72c35e5a..afe0634c 100644
--- a/pandora/websocket/worker.py
+++ b/pandora/websocket/worker.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class Worker(ConsumerMixin):
         message.ack()
 
 def run():
-    with Connection(settings.CELERY_BROKER_URL) as conn:
+    with Connection(settings.BROKER_URL) as conn:
         try:
             worker = Worker(conn)
             worker.run()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d26e9bd9..1881524a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Django==1.11.22
 simplejson
 chardet
-celery>4
-django-celery-results
+celery==3.1.26.post2
+django-celery==3.2.2
 django-extensions==2.0.7
 gunicorn==19.8.1
 html5lib
diff --git a/update.py b/update.py
index 41283454..86dbe643 100755
--- a/update.py
+++ b/update.py
@@ -261,17 +261,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
             run('./pandora/manage.py', 'createcachetable')
         if old <= 6108:
             run('./bin/pip', 'install', '-r', 'requirements.txt')
-        if old <= 6160:
-            run('./bin/pip', 'install', '-r', 'requirements.txt')
-            with open('pandora/local_settings.py', 'r') as f:
-                local_settings = f.read()
-            if 'BROKER_URL' in local_settings and 'CELERY_BROKER_URL' not in local_settings:
-                local_settings = [
-                    'CELERY_' + l if l.startswith('BROKER_URL') else l
-                    for l in local_settings.split('\n')
-                ]
-                with open('pandora/local_settings.py', 'w') as f:
-                    f.write('\n'.join(local_settings))
     else:
         if len(sys.argv) == 1:
             branch = get_branch()
@@ -323,22 +312,9 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
             run('./manage.py', 'compile_pyc', '-p', '.')
         os.chdir(join(base, 'pandora'))
         diff = get('./manage.py', 'sqldiff', '-a').strip()
-        for row in [
-            '-- Model missing for table: djcelery_periodictasks\n',
-            '-- Model missing for table: celery_taskmeta\n',
-            '-- Model missing for table: celery_tasksetmeta\n',
-            '-- Model missing for table: djcelery_crontabschedule\n',
-            '-- Model missing for table: djcelery_periodictask\n',
-            '-- Model missing for table: djcelery_intervalschedule\n',
-            '-- Model missing for table: djcelery_workerstate\n',
-            '-- Model missing for table: djcelery_taskstate\n',
-            '-- Model missing for table: cache\n',
-        ]:
-            if row in diff:
-                diff = diff.replace(row, '')
         if diff not in [
             '-- No differences',
-            'BEGIN;\nCOMMIT;'
+            'BEGIN;\n-- Model missing for table: cache\nCOMMIT;'
         ]:
             print('Database has changed, please make a backup and run %s db' % sys.argv[0])
         elif branch != 'master':
diff --git a/vm/pandora_install.sh b/vm/pandora_install.sh
index 3a62e90d..834060c5 100755
--- a/vm/pandora_install.sh
+++ b/vm/pandora_install.sh
@@ -117,9 +117,9 @@ if [ "$RABBITMQ" == "local" ]; then
     rabbitmqctl add_user pandora $RABBITPWD
     rabbitmqctl add_vhost /pandora
     rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p /pandora pandora ".*" ".*" ".*"
-    CELERY_BROKER_URL="amqp://pandora:$RABBITPWD@localhost:5672//pandora"
+    BROKER_URL="amqp://pandora:$RABBITPWD@localhost:5672//pandora"
 else
-    CELERY_BROKER_URL="$RABBITMQ"
+    BROKER_URL="$RABBITMQ"
 fi
 
 # checkout pandora from git
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ DATABASES = {
         'PASSWORD': '',
     }
 }
-CELERY_BROKER_URL = '$CELERY_BROKER_URL'
+BROKER_URL = '$BROKER_URL'
 XACCELREDIRECT = True
 
 DEBUG = False