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Celery v5.6.0 released! 🚀

⭐ Key Highlights ⭐

✅ Drop Support for Python 3.8 (+initial support for Python 3.14)

✅ Reverted to pycurl from urllib3 (SQS stability fix)

✅ Security fix: Broker credential leak prevention

✅ Critical memory leak fixes (exception handling & AsyncResult)

✅ ETA task memory limit to prevent OOM crashes

✅ RabbitMQ quorum queue support for auto-created queues

✅ Django psycopg3 connection pool fix

✅ Redis credential provider & client name support

✅ Cold shutdown bugfixes

📜 Changes: