Merge Requests 

This pages provides an overview of the merge requests we are current working on or did already accepted for the Kate, KTextEditor, KSyntaxHighlighting and kate-editor.org repositories.

Currently Open Merge Requests

Our team is still working on the following requests. Feel free to take a look and help out, if any of them is interesting for you!

Kate

• add "Show Buttons Around Tabs" checkbox
  Request authored by BZZZZ DZZZZ.

• Add directory listing option for project plugin
  Request authored by James Coleman.

• Draft: AI powered assistant using local models
  Request authored by Christoph Cullmann.

• addons/project: update open tabs when renaming
  Request authored by Leia uwu.

• build plugin: reload cmake targets if the cmake file API relies have been updated
  Request authored by Alexander Neundorf.

• Draft: build-plugin: add install command and auto detect run commands
  Request authored by Leia uwu.

KTextEditor

• katedocument: Use first line of text as document title
  Request authored by Kai Uwe Broulik.

• kateviewinternal: debounce resize events
  Request authored by Christoph Cullmann.

• kateviewinternal: debounce resize events
  Request authored by Leia uwu.

KSyntaxHighlighting

• move comment after white space for some shells and Perl
  Request authored by Christoph Cullmann.

• Add syntax highlighting for Slint files
  Request authored by Joshua Goins.

• Draft: library variant that works without QtGui
  Request authored by jonathan poelen.

Overall Accepted Merge Requests

• 1853 patches for Kate
• 791 patches for KTextEditor
• 733 patches for KSyntaxHighlighting
• 59 patches for kate-editor.org

Accepted Merge Requests of 2026

• 57 patches for Kate
• 12 patches for KTextEditor
• 4 patches for KSyntaxHighlighting

Monthly Statistics

• February 2026 (31 requests)
• January 2026 (42 requests)

Accepted Merge Requests of 2025

• 274 patches for Kate
• 84 patches for KTextEditor
• 92 patches for KSyntaxHighlighting
• 2 patches for kate-editor.org

Monthly Statistics

• December 2025 (38 requests)
• November 2025 (24 requests)
• October 2025 (49 requests)
• September 2025 (42 requests)
• August 2025 (47 requests)
• July 2025 (62 requests)
• June 2025 (22 requests)
• May 2025 (26 requests)
• April 2025 (20 requests)
• March 2025 (46 requests)
• February 2025 (43 requests)
• January 2025 (33 requests)

Accepted Merge Requests of 2024

• 289 patches for Kate
• 101 patches for KTextEditor
• 77 patches for KSyntaxHighlighting
• 3 patches for kate-editor.org

Monthly Statistics

• December 2024 (33 requests)
• November 2024 (38 requests)
• October 2024 (49 requests)
• September 2024 (58 requests)
• August 2024 (51 requests)
• July 2024 (37 requests)
• June 2024 (30 requests)
• May 2024 (46 requests)
• April 2024 (43 requests)
• March 2024 (32 requests)
• February 2024 (30 requests)
• January 2024 (23 requests)

Accepted Merge Requests of 2023

• 308 patches for Kate
• 174 patches for KTextEditor
• 173 patches for KSyntaxHighlighting
• 13 patches for kate-editor.org

Monthly Statistics

• December 2023 (29 requests)
• November 2023 (66 requests)
• October 2023 (47 requests)
• September 2023 (62 requests)
• August 2023 (33 requests)
• July 2023 (53 requests)
• June 2023 (35 requests)
• May 2023 (42 requests)
• April 2023 (50 requests)
• March 2023 (91 requests)
• February 2023 (72 requests)
• January 2023 (88 requests)

Accepted Merge Requests of 2022

• 445 patches for Kate
• 194 patches for KTextEditor
• 111 patches for KSyntaxHighlighting
• 9 patches for kate-editor.org

Monthly Statistics

• December 2022 (53 requests)
• November 2022 (55 requests)
• October 2022 (106 requests)
• September 2022 (53 requests)
• August 2022 (93 requests)
• July 2022 (43 requests)
• June 2022 (39 requests)
• May 2022 (37 requests)
• April 2022 (34 requests)
• March 2022 (91 requests)
• February 2022 (89 requests)
• January 2022 (66 requests)

Accepted Merge Requests of 2021

• 348 patches for Kate
• 177 patches for KTextEditor
• 144 patches for KSyntaxHighlighting
• 24 patches for kate-editor.org

Monthly Statistics

• December 2021 (51 requests)
• November 2021 (32 requests)
• October 2021 (45 requests)
• September 2021 (15 requests)
• August 2021 (34 requests)
• July 2021 (45 requests)
• June 2021 (57 requests)
• May 2021 (57 requests)
• April 2021 (37 requests)
• March 2021 (91 requests)
• February 2021 (109 requests)
• January 2021 (120 requests)

Accepted Merge Requests of 2020

• 87 patches for Kate
• 49 patches for KTextEditor
• 132 patches for KSyntaxHighlighting
• 2 patches for kate-editor.org

Monthly Statistics

• December 2020 (58 requests)
• November 2020 (28 requests)
• October 2020 (36 requests)
• September 2020 (42 requests)
• August 2020 (56 requests)
• July 2020 (10 requests)
• June 2020 (8 requests)
• May 2020 (14 requests)
• April 2020 (2 requests)
• March 2020 (4 requests)
• February 2020 (7 requests)
• January 2020 (5 requests)

Accepted Merge Requests of 2019

• 45 patches for Kate
• 6 patches for kate-editor.org

Monthly Statistics

• December 2019 (7 requests)
• November 2019 (3 requests)
• October 2019 (9 requests)
• September 2019 (20 requests)
• August 2019 (12 requests)