diff --git a/kde-base/kate/additional-files/kate.rdef.in b/kde-base/kate/additional-files/kate.rdef.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3319e3b73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kde-base/kate/additional-files/kate.rdef.in
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+
+resource app_flags B_MULTIPLE_LAUNCH;
+
+resource app_version {
+	major  = @MAJOR@,
+	middle = @MIDDLE@,
+	minor  = @MINOR@,
+
+	variety = B_APPV_FINAL,
+	internal = 0,
+
+	short_info = "Kate",
+	long_info = "@LONG_INFO@"
+};
+
+resource app_signature "@APP_SIGNATURE@";
+
+resource file_types message {
+	"types" = "text"
+};
+
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diff --git a/kde-base/kate/kate-18.04.0.recipe b/kde-base/kate/kate-18.04.0.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0469b13ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kde-base/kate/kate-18.04.0.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+SUMMARY="Advanced text editor"
+DESCRIPTION="Kate is a multi-document editor part of KDE since release 2.2. \
+Being a KDE application, Kate ships with network transparency, as well as \
+integration with the outstanding features of KDE. Choose it for viewing HTML \
+sources from konqueror, editing configuration files, writing new applications \
+or any other text editing task. You still need just one running instance of \
+Kate.
+
+With a multi-view editor like Kate you get a lot of advantages. You can view \
+several instances of the same document and all instances are synchronized. \
+Or you can view more files at the same time for easy reference or simultaneous \
+editing.
+
+
+Application Features
+* window splitting (horizontal & vertical)
+* multi-document interface (MDI)
+* plugin: embedded terminal, SQL plugin, build plugin, GDB plugin, Replace in \
+Files, and more
+* session support
+
+General Features
+* encoding support (Unicode and lots of others)
+* bi-directional text rendering support
+* line ending support (Windows, Unix, Mac), including auto detection
+* network transparency (open remote files)
+* extensible through scripting
+
+Advanced Editor Features
+* bookmarking system (also supported: break points etc.)
+* scroll bar marks
+* line modification indicators
+* line numbers
+* code folding
+
+Syntax Highlighting
+* highlighting support for more than 250 languages
+* bracket matching
+* smart on-the-fly spell checking
+* highlighting of selected words
+
+Programming Features
+* scriptable auto indentation
+* smart comment and uncomment handling
+* auto completion with argument hints
+* vi input mode
+* rectangular block selection mode
+
+Search & Replace
+* incremental search, also known as “find as you type”
+* support for multiline search & replace
+* regular expression support
+* search & replace in multiple opened files or files on disk
+
+Backup and Restore
+* backups on save
+* swap files to recover data on system crash
+* undo / redo system"
+HOMEPAGE="https://kate-editor.org/"
+COPYRIGHT="2010-2018 KDE Organisation"
+LICENSE="GNU LGPL v2"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/KDE/kate/archive/v$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="804f395d8f79836825a97c1bc81b800f078d64ceb9af10f842082d3e06e70284"
+PATCHES="kate-$portVersion.patchset"
+ADDITIONAL_FILES="kate.rdef.in"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_64"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	kate$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	app:Kate$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5Auth$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5Archive$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5Bookmarks$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5Codecs$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5Completion$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5ConfigCore$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5ConfigGui$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5ConfigWidgets$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5CoreAddons$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5Crash$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5DBusAddons$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5GuiAddons$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5I18n$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5IconThemes$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5ItemViews$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5ItemModels$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5JobWidgets$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5KIOCore$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5KIOFileWidgets$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5KIOWidgets$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5Notifications$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5Parts$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5Service$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5Solid$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5SonnetUi$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5TextEditor$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5TextWidgets$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5UnitConversion$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5WidgetsAddons$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5WindowSystem$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libKF5XmlGui$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libQt5Core$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libQt5DBus$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libQt5Gui$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libQt5Network$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libQt5PrintSupport$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libQt5Widgets$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libQt5Xml$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	extra_cmake_modules >= 5.45
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	devel:libKF5Auth$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5Archive$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5Bookmarks$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5Codecs$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5CoreAddons$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5Completion$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5ConfigCore$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5ConfigGui$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5ConfigWidgets$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5Crash$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5DBusAddons$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5GuiAddons$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5I18n$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5IconThemes$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5ItemViews$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5ItemModels$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5JobWidgets$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5KIOCore$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5KIOFileWidgets$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5KIOWidgets$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5Notifications$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5Parts$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5Service$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5Solid$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5SonnetUi$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5TextEditor$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5TextWidgets$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5UnitConversion$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5WidgetsAddons$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5WindowSystem$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libKF5XmlGui$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libQt5Core$secondaryArchSuffix >= 5.7
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:cmake
+	cmd:g++$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:python2
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	sed -e '/add_subdirectory( doc )/ s/^#*/#/' -i CMakeLists.txt
+
+	mkdir -p build
+	cd build
+
+	cmake .. \
+		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$prefix \
+		-DINCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR=$includeDir \
+		-DSHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$dataDir \
+		-DECM_MKSPECS_INSTALL_DIR=$dataDir/Qt5/mkspecs \
+		-DECM_DIR=/system/data/cmake/Modules/ECM/cmake \
+		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$appsDir/Kate \
+		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR=$dataDir
+
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	cd build
+	make install
+	mv $appsDir/Kate/bin/kate $appsDir/Kate/Kate
+	rm -rf $appsDir/Kate/bin
+
+	local APP_SIGNATURE="application/x-vnd.qt5-kate"
+	local MAJOR="`echo "$portVersion" | cut -d. -f1`"
+	local MIDDLE="`echo "$portVersion" | cut -d. -f2`"
+	local MINOR="`echo "$portVersion" | cut -d. -f3`"
+	local LONG_INFO="$SUMMARY"
+	sed \
+		-e "s|@APP_SIGNATURE@|$APP_SIGNATURE|" \
+		-e "s|@MAJOR@|$MAJOR|" \
+		-e "s|@MIDDLE@|$MIDDLE|" \
+		-e "s|@MINOR@|$MINOR|" \
+		-e "s|@LONG_INFO@|$LONG_INFO|" \
+		$portDir/additional-files/kate.rdef.in > kate.rdef
+
+	addResourcesToBinaries kate.rdef $appsDir/Kate/Kate
+	addAppDeskbarSymlink $appsDir/Kate/Kate
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	make test
+}
diff --git a/kde-base/kate/patches/kate-18.04.0.patchset b/kde-base/kate/patches/kate-18.04.0.patchset
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bf27f2a03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kde-base/kate/patches/kate-18.04.0.patchset
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From aeecd9ef70d033a80e1f14be6b8ec563101575f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Sergei Reznikov <diver@gelios.net>
+Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:32:30 +0300
+Subject: Allow running as root on Haiku
+
+
+diff --git a/kate/main.cpp b/kate/main.cpp
+index e20fcff..630e92e 100644
+--- a/kate/main.cpp
++++ b/kate/main.cpp
+@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
+ 
+ int main(int argc, char **argv)
+ {
+-#ifndef Q_OS_WIN
++#if !defined(Q_OS_WIN) && !defined(Q_OS_HAIKU)
+     /**
+      * Check whether we are running as root
+      **/
+-- 
+2.16.2
+