diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index b35a65a..de5b3ea 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+- 0.5.0 2014-05-02
+  Adding reset() function to caching.js.  Closes #5.
+
 - 0.4.0 2014-05-02
   New arg to ignore cache errors. if set cache errors will be ignored
   and the cache_manager will go to the backing store. (Thanks londonjamo).
diff --git a/lib/caching.js b/lib/caching.js
index a8a3172..9e560db 100644
--- a/lib/caching.js
+++ b/lib/caching.js
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ var caching = function (args) {
 
     self.del = self.store.del.bind(self.store);
 
+    if (typeof self.store.reset === 'function') {
+        self.reset = self.store.reset.bind(self.store);
+    }
+
     return self;
 };
 
diff --git a/lib/stores/memory.js b/lib/stores/memory.js
index 7c27f66..351af0d 100644
--- a/lib/stores/memory.js
+++ b/lib/stores/memory.js
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ var memory_store = function (args) {
         }
     };
 
+    self.reset = function (cb) {
+        lru_cache.reset();
+        if (cb) {
+            process.nextTick(cb);
+        }
+    };
+
     return self;
 };
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 07a307a..fdd8622 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "cache-manager",
-  "version": "0.4.0",
+  "version": "0.5.0",
   "description": "Cache module for Node.js",
   "main": "index.js",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/test/caching.unit.js b/test/caching.unit.js
index 4e00c38..b9b8a3a 100644
--- a/test/caching.unit.js
+++ b/test/caching.unit.js
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+// TODO: These are really a mix of unit and integration tests.
+
 var assert = require('assert');
 var sinon = require('sinon');
 var support = require('./support');
@@ -96,6 +98,55 @@ describe("caching", function () {
         });
     });
 
+    describe("reset()", function () {
+        var key2;
+        var value2;
+
+        beforeEach(function (done) {
+            cache = caching({store: 'memory'});
+            key = support.random.string(20);
+            value = support.random.string();
+
+            cache.set(key, value, function (err) {
+                check_err(err);
+
+                key2 = support.random.string(20);
+                value2 = support.random.string();
+
+                cache.set(key, value, done);
+            });
+        });
+
+        it("clears the cache", function (done) {
+            cache.reset(function (err) {
+                check_err(err);
+
+                cache.get(key, function (err, result) {
+                    assert.ok(!result);
+
+                    cache.get(key2, function (err, result) {
+                        assert.ok(!result);
+                        done();
+                    });
+                });
+            });
+        });
+
+        it("lets us clear the cache without a callback", function (done) {
+            cache.reset();
+            setTimeout(function () {
+                cache.get(key, function (err, result) {
+                    assert.ok(!result);
+
+                    cache.get(key2, function (err, result) {
+                        assert.ok(!result);
+                        done();
+                    });
+                });
+            }, 10);
+        });
+    });
+
     describe("wrap()", function () {
         describe("using memory (lru-cache) store", function () {
             var memory_store_stub;
@@ -282,7 +333,6 @@ describe("caching", function () {
                     });
                 });
             });
-
         });
     });