Kate doesn't appear to respect certain LSP server capabilities

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I ran into this issue while trying to use wgsl-analyzer LSP server (GitHub - wgsl-analyzer/wgsl-analyzer: A language server implementation for WGSL and WESL · GitHub), which currently does not provide a document highlight provider. However, Kate appears to ignore this and sends a textDocument/documentHighlight request to the server anyway, which fails and bloats my log. This feels like it shouldn’t be ignored, even if having an LSP server without syntax highlighting is slightly weird…

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Hmm , I thought we fixed that with

commit 6b80d0104171874df60199cfb751893e7376c31b
Author: Christoph Cullmann christoph@cullmann.dev
Date: Mon Dec 29 21:58:42 2025 +0100

ensure we honor the documentHighlightProvider capability

avoids that we send invalid requests to the server

which version do you use?

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I installed it a month ago, so it should be pretty close to latest.

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Could you paste the version info from the about dialog?

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Kate: 25.04.3
KDE Frameworks: 6.13.10
Qt: 6.8.2/6.8.2
Debian 13, Wayland

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Ok, sorry, but that version is too old.

The fix is from end of 2025, your version from April of 2025.

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That’s very strange, since both APT and Discover say it’s latest…

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Debian is unfortunately not very up-to-date in that respect, sorry.
If you want system provided more up-to-date software, you need to choose a different distribution.