diff --git a/doc-src/content/CHANGELOG.markdown b/doc-src/content/CHANGELOG.markdown
index 0fc5e21d..2bc0bf5c 100644
--- a/doc-src/content/CHANGELOG.markdown
+++ b/doc-src/content/CHANGELOG.markdown
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ The Documentation for the [latest preview release](http://beta.compass-style.org
 * Compass now depends on Sass 3.1. You can install the preview release:
   `gem install sass --pre`. Note: you must also upgrade your haml gem if you
   use both in the same application.
+* A third argument is now available on the `image-url()` helper. When `true` or
+  `false`, it will enable/disable the cache buster for a single image url. Or when
+  a string, it will be the cache buster used.
 
 0.11.alpha.1 (11/22/2010)
 -------------------------
diff --git a/doc-src/content/reference/compass/helpers/urls.haml b/doc-src/content/reference/compass/helpers/urls.haml
index d0ffed70..038efe66 100644
--- a/doc-src/content/reference/compass/helpers/urls.haml
+++ b/doc-src/content/reference/compass/helpers/urls.haml
@@ -43,11 +43,15 @@ classnames:
 #image-url.helper
   %h3
     %a(href="#image-url")
-      image-url($path, $only-path: false)
+      image-url($path, $only-path: false, $cache-buster: true)
   .details
     %p
       Generates a path to an asset found relative to the project's images directory.
-      %br
+    %p
       Passing a true value as the second argument will cause the only the path to be returned
       instead of a `url()` function
+    %p
+      The third argument is used to control the cache buster on a per-use basis.
+      When set to `false` no cache buster will be used. When a string, that
+      value will be used as the cache buster.
 
diff --git a/lib/compass/sass_extensions/functions/sprites.rb b/lib/compass/sass_extensions/functions/sprites.rb
index adc18765..127adc57 100644
--- a/lib/compass/sass_extensions/functions/sprites.rb
+++ b/lib/compass/sass_extensions/functions/sprites.rb
@@ -288,7 +288,9 @@ module Compass::SassExtensions::Functions::Sprites
       missing_sprite!("sprite-url")
     end
     map.generate
-    image_url(Sass::Script::String.new("#{map.path}-#{map.uniqueness_hash}.png"))
+    image_url(Sass::Script::String.new("#{map.path}-#{map.uniqueness_hash}.png"),
+              Sass::Script::Bool.new(false),
+              Sass::Script::Bool.new(false))
   end
   Sass::Script::Functions.declare :sprite_url, [:map]
 
diff --git a/lib/compass/sass_extensions/functions/urls.rb b/lib/compass/sass_extensions/functions/urls.rb
index 1ced4340..d140c8a5 100644
--- a/lib/compass/sass_extensions/functions/urls.rb
+++ b/lib/compass/sass_extensions/functions/urls.rb
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ module Compass::SassExtensions::Functions::Urls
       clean_url(path)
     end
   end
+  Sass::Script::Functions.declare :stylesheet_url, [:path]
+  Sass::Script::Functions.declare :stylesheet_url, [:path, :only_path]
 
   def font_url(path, only_path = Sass::Script::Bool.new(false))
     path = path.value # get to the string value of the literal.
@@ -43,8 +45,10 @@ module Compass::SassExtensions::Functions::Urls
       clean_url(path)
     end
   end
+  Sass::Script::Functions.declare :font_url, [:path]
+  Sass::Script::Functions.declare :font_url, [:path, :only_path]
 
-  def image_url(path, only_path = Sass::Script::Bool.new(false))
+  def image_url(path, only_path = Sass::Script::Bool.new(false), cache_buster = Sass::Script::Bool.new(true))
     path = path.value # get to the string value of the literal.
 
     if path =~ %r{^#{Regexp.escape(Compass.configuration.http_images_path)}/(.*)}
@@ -83,8 +87,14 @@ module Compass::SassExtensions::Functions::Urls
     end
 
     # Compute and append the cache buster if there is one.
-    if buster = compute_cache_buster(path, real_path)
-      path += "?#{buster}"
+    if cache_buster.to_bool
+      if cache_buster.is_a?(Sass::Script::String)
+        path += "?#{cache_buster.value}"
+      else
+        if buster = compute_cache_buster(path, real_path)
+          path += "?#{buster}"
+        end
+      end
     end
 
     # prepend the asset host if there is one.
@@ -96,6 +106,9 @@ module Compass::SassExtensions::Functions::Urls
       clean_url(path)
     end
   end
+  Sass::Script::Functions.declare :image_url, [:path]
+  Sass::Script::Functions.declare :image_url, [:path, :only_path]
+  Sass::Script::Functions.declare :image_url, [:path, :only_path, :cache_buster]
 
   private
 
diff --git a/test/fixtures/stylesheets/image_urls/css/screen.css b/test/fixtures/stylesheets/image_urls/css/screen.css
index 9609ab2c..0c01a391 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/stylesheets/image_urls/css/screen.css
+++ b/test/fixtures/stylesheets/image_urls/css/screen.css
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 .showgrid { background-image: url('http://assets0.example.com/images/grid.png?busted=true'); }
 
 .inlinegrid { background-image: url('data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAUEAYAAACv1qP4AAAABmJLR0T///////8JWPfcAAAACXBIWXMAAABIAAAASABGyWs+AAAAZ0lEQVRYw+3QwQ2AIBAFUTEUwI3+uzN7gDscsIgxEuO8An52J11X73OudfxMraXkzHfO3Y98nQEhA0IGhAwIGRAyIGRAyICQASEDQgaEDAgZEDIgZEDIgJABoZzSGK3tPuN9ERFP7Nw4fg+c5g8V1wAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='); }
+
+.no-buster { background-image: url('http://assets0.example.com/images/grid.png'); }
diff --git a/test/fixtures/stylesheets/image_urls/sass/screen.sass b/test/fixtures/stylesheets/image_urls/sass/screen.sass
index 68a27f74..e16697bc 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/stylesheets/image_urls/sass/screen.sass
+++ b/test/fixtures/stylesheets/image_urls/sass/screen.sass
@@ -3,3 +3,6 @@
 
 .inlinegrid
   background-image: inline-image(unquote("grid.png"))
+
+.no-buster
+  background-image: image-url("grid.png", $only-path: false, $cache-buster: false)