diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py
index e2ca33ea63..6d8493b175 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py
@@ -361,6 +361,17 @@ class RecipeEvent(Event):
 class RecipePreFinalise(RecipeEvent):
     """ Recipe Parsing Complete but not yet finialised"""
 
+class RecipeTaskPreProcess(RecipeEvent):
+    """
+    Recipe Tasks about to be finalised
+    The list of tasks should be final at this point and handlers
+    are only able to change interdependencies
+    """
+    def __init__(self, fn, tasklist):
+        self.fn = fn
+        self.tasklist = tasklist
+        Event.__init__(self)
+
 class RecipeParsed(RecipeEvent):
     """ Recipe Parsing Complete """
 
diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/parse/ast.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/parse/ast.py
index 853dda86b4..8b5b36619d 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/parse/ast.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/parse/ast.py
@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ def finalize(fn, d, variant = None):
     bb.data.update_data(d)
 
     tasklist = d.getVar('__BBTASKS', False) or []
+    bb.event.fire(bb.event.RecipeTaskPreProcess(fn, list(tasklist)), d)
     bb.build.add_tasks(tasklist, d)
 
     bb.parse.siggen.finalise(fn, d, variant)