diff --git a/include/osgUtil/SceneView b/include/osgUtil/SceneView
index e5d043249..32be9af2f 100644
--- a/include/osgUtil/SceneView
+++ b/include/osgUtil/SceneView
@@ -414,6 +414,11 @@ class OSGUTIL_EXPORT SceneView : public osg::Referenced, public osg::CullSetting
         /** Do draw traversal of draw bins generated by cull traversal.*/
         virtual void draw();
         
+        /** Releast all OpenGL objects from the scene graph, such as texture objects, display lists etc.
+          * These released scene graphs placed in the respective delete GLObjects cache, which
+          * then need to be deleted in OpenGL by SceneView::flushAllDeleteGLObjects(). */
+        virtual void releaseAllGLObjects();
+
         /** Flush all deleted OpenGL objects, such as texture objects, display lists etc.*/
         virtual void flushAllDeletedGLObjects();
 
diff --git a/src/osgUtil/GLObjectsVisitor.cpp b/src/osgUtil/GLObjectsVisitor.cpp
index 6008c5c05..e07256ef3 100644
--- a/src/osgUtil/GLObjectsVisitor.cpp
+++ b/src/osgUtil/GLObjectsVisitor.cpp
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 */
 #include <osgUtil/GLObjectsVisitor>
 #include <osg/Drawable>
+#include <osg/Notify>
 
 using namespace osg;
 using namespace osgUtil;
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ void GLObjectsVisitor::apply(osg::StateSet& stateset)
     }
     if (_mode&RELEASE_STATE_ATTRIBUTES)
     {
+        osg::notify(osg::NOTICE)<<"GLObjectsVisitor::apply"<<std::endl;
         stateset.releaseGLObjects(_state.get());
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/osgUtil/SceneView.cpp b/src/osgUtil/SceneView.cpp
index 6c360a4d2..da143747f 100644
--- a/src/osgUtil/SceneView.cpp
+++ b/src/osgUtil/SceneView.cpp
@@ -614,6 +614,16 @@ void SceneView::cullStage(const osg::Matrixd& projection,const osg::Matrixd& mod
     rendergraph->prune();
 }
 
+void SceneView::releaseAllGLObjects()
+{
+    if (!_sceneData) return;
+   
+    GLObjectsVisitor globjv(GLObjectsVisitor::RELEASE_DISPLAY_LISTS|GLObjectsVisitor::RELEASE_STATE_ATTRIBUTES);
+    globjv.setNodeMaskOverride(0xffffffff);
+    globjv.setState(_state.get());
+    _sceneData->accept(globjv);
+}
+
 
 void SceneView::flushAllDeletedGLObjects()
 {