Index: typo3/sysext/scheduler/locallang.xml
===================================================================
--- typo3/sysext/scheduler/locallang.xml	(revision 9229)
+++ typo3/sysext/scheduler/locallang.xml	(working copy)
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 			<label index="testTask.description">The Scheduler test task just sends a mail to a given email address. It is designed to be used for testing purposes.</label>
 			<label index="sleepTask.name">Scheduler sleep task</label>
 			<label index="sleepTask.description">This task does nothing but put PHP to sleep for a number of seconds. It is designed to test multiple executions.</label>
+			<label index="cachingFrameworkGarbageCollection.name">Caching framework garbage collection</label>
+			<label index="cachingFrameworkGarbageCollection.description">This task calls the garbage collection of configured caching framework caches using one of the selected backends. This will free some space in cache backends which do not have an internal garbage collection. In case of the default database backend it is advisable to run this task once a day when the database is mostly idle.</label>
 		</languageKey>
 	</data>
 </T3locallang>
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Index: typo3/sysext/scheduler/mod1/locallang_csh_scheduler.xml
===================================================================
--- typo3/sysext/scheduler/mod1/locallang_csh_scheduler.xml	(revision 9229)
+++ typo3/sysext/scheduler/mod1/locallang_csh_scheduler.xml	(working copy)
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@
 			<label index="task_email.description">Enter a recipient for the mails sent by the test task</label>
 			<label index="task_sleepTime.alttitle">Sleep time</label>
 			<label index="task_sleepTime.description">Enter a number of seconds during which the task will just sleep.</label>
+			<label index="task_cachingFrameworkGarbageCollection_selectedBackends.alttitle">Select backends</label>
+			<label index="task_cachingFrameworkGarbageCollection_selectedBackends.description">If a cache uses one of the selected backends, the garbage collection will be called for this cache.</label>
 		</languageKey>
 	</data>
 </T3locallang>
Index: typo3/sysext/scheduler/mod1/locallang.xml
===================================================================
--- typo3/sysext/scheduler/mod1/locallang.xml	(revision 9229)
+++ typo3/sysext/scheduler/mod1/locallang.xml	(working copy)
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 			<label index="hdg.lastRun">Last run</label>
 			<label index="hdg.schedulerUser">TYPO3 Scheduler backend user</label>
 			<label index="label.automatically">automatically</label>
+			<label index="label.cachingFrameworkGarbageCollection.selectBackends">Backend types</label>
 			<label index="label.checkAll">Check/uncheck all</label>
 			<label index="label.class">Class</label>
 			<label index="label.cron">Cron</label>
Index: typo3/sysext/scheduler/ext_localconf.php
===================================================================
--- typo3/sysext/scheduler/ext_localconf.php	(revision 9229)
+++ typo3/sysext/scheduler/ext_localconf.php	(working copy)
@@ -29,4 +29,13 @@
 		'additionalFields' => 'tx_scheduler_SleepTask_AdditionalFieldProvider'
 	);
 }
-?>
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+
+	// Add caching framework garbage collection task
+$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SC_OPTIONS']['scheduler']['tasks']['tx_scheduler_CachingFrameworkGarbageCollection'] = array(
+		'extension'        => $_EXTKEY,
+		'title'            => 'LLL:EXT:' . $_EXTKEY . '/locallang.xml:cachingFrameworkGarbageCollection.name',
+		'description'      => 'LLL:EXT:' . $_EXTKEY . '/locallang.xml:cachingFrameworkGarbageCollection.description',
+		'additionalFields' => 'tx_scheduler_CachingFrameworkGarbageCollection_AdditionalFieldProvider',
+	);
+
+?>
Index: typo3/sysext/scheduler/ext_autoload.php
===================================================================
--- typo3/sysext/scheduler/ext_autoload.php	(revision 9229)
+++ typo3/sysext/scheduler/ext_autoload.php	(working copy)
@@ -18,5 +18,7 @@
 	'tx_scheduler_additionalfieldprovider' => $extensionPath . 'interfaces/interface.tx_scheduler_additionalfieldprovider.php',
 	'tx_scheduler_module' => $extensionPath . 'mod1/index.php',
 	'tx_scheduler_croncmdtest' => $extensionPath . 'tests/tx_scheduler_croncmdTest.php',
+	'tx_scheduler_cachingframeworkgarbagecollection' => $extensionPath . 'tasks/class.tx_scheduler_cachingframeworkgarbagecollection.php',
+	'tx_scheduler_cachingframeworkgarbagecollection_additionalfieldprovider' => $extensionPath . 'tasks/class.tx_scheduler_cachingframeworkgarbagecollection_additionalfieldprovider.php',
 );
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>