Celery v5.6.0b2

Celery v5.6.0 Beta 2 is now available for testing. Please help us test this version and report any issues.

What's Changed

• GitHub Actions: Test on Python 3.14 release candidate 2 by @cclauss in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9891
• Update pypy to python 3.11 by @cclauss in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9896
• Feature: Add support credential_provider to Redis Backend by @alaminopu in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9879
• Celery.timezone: try tzlocal.get_localzone() before using LocalTimezone by @woutdenolf in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9862
• Run integration tests on Python 3.14 by @cclauss in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9903
• Fix arithmetic overflow for MSSQL result backend by @vladborovtsov in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9904
• Add documentation for task_id param for apply_async function by @sumo1998 in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9906
• Support redis client name by @mdalp in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9900
• Bump Kombu to v5.6.0rc1 by @Nusnus in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9918
• Fix broker connection retry attempt counter in the error log by @sumo1998 in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9911
• fix: restrict disable-prefetch feature to Redis brokers only by @Dkhodos in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9919
• fix(): preserve group order in replaced signature by @simonepozzoli-pix4d in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9910
• Remove Python 3.8 from CI workflow by @auvipy in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9930
• Update default Python versions in integration tests by @auvipy in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9931
• Update tox.ini to remove Python 3.8 by @auvipy in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9932
• Remove Python 3.8 from Dockerfile by @auvipy in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9933
• Update Python version requirement to 3.9 by @auvipy in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9935
• Update pypy version from 3.10 to 3.11 in Dockerfile by @auvipy in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9934
• Flake8 fixes by @auvipy in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9955
• Remove test-pypy3.txt from Dockerfile dependencies by @auvipy in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9939
• Remove backports.zoneinfo for Python 3.9 compatibility by @auvipy in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9956
• Update pytest-cov version for Python compatibility by @auvipy in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9957
• Update pytest-rerunfailures and pre-commit versions by @auvipy in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9958
• Prepare for (pre) release: v5.6.0b2 by @Nusnus in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9938

New Contributors

• @vladborovtsov made their first contribution in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9904
• @sumo1998 made their first contribution in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9906
• @mdalp made their first contribution in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9900
• @simonepozzoli-pix4d made their first contribution in https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/9910

Full Changelog: https://github.com/celery/celery/compare/v5.6.0b1...v5.6.0b2