diff --git a/kate/data/diff.xml b/kate/data/diff.xml
index b681b4270..62fdceb1e 100644
--- a/kate/data/diff.xml
+++ b/kate/data/diff.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     2008-02-13: 1.11 Eduardo Robles Elvira <edulix AT gmail DOT com>
      Fixed folding.
 -->
-<language name="Diff" version="1.12" kateversion="2.4" section="Other" extensions="*.diff;*patch" mimetype="text/x-patch">
+<language name="Diff" version="1.13" kateversion="2.4" section="Other" extensions="*.diff;*patch" mimetype="text/x-patch">
 
   <highlighting>
 
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@
       <itemData name="Normal Text" defStyleNum="dsNormal"/>
       <itemData name="File"  defStyleNum="dsKeyword"/>
       <itemData name="Header"  defStyleNum="dsDataType"/>
-      <itemData name="Removed line"  defStyleNum="dsString" color="#FF0000"/>
-      <itemData name="Added line"  defStyleNum="dsOthers" color="#0000FF"/>
+      <itemData name="Removed line"  defStyleNum="dsString" backgroundColor="#ffeef0"/>
+      <itemData name="Added line"  defStyleNum="dsOthers" backgroundColor="#e6ffed"/>
       <itemData name="Changed line (old)"  defStyleNum="dsString" color="#FF0000"/>
       <itemData name="Changed line (new)"  defStyleNum="dsOthers" color="#0000FF"/>
     </itemDatas>
diff --git a/kate/data/markdown.xml b/kate/data/markdown.xml
index 2ede54fd3..177b904da 100644
--- a/kate/data/markdown.xml
+++ b/kate/data/markdown.xml
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@
 			<itemData name="diffheader1" defStyleNum="dsNormal" backgroundColor="#eeeeee" color="#800000" bold="true" />
 			<itemData name="diffheader2" defStyleNum="dsNormal" backgroundColor="#eeeeee" color="#800000" />
 			<itemData name="diffheaderdiff" defStyleNum="dsNormal" backgroundColor="#eeeeee" color="#000000" bold="true" />
-			<itemData name="difflineremove" defStyleNum="dsNormal" backgroundColor="#ffeef0" />
-			<itemData name="difflineadd" defStyleNum="dsNormal" backgroundColor="#e6ffed" />
+			<itemData name="difflineremove" defStyleNum="dsString" backgroundColor="#ffeef0" />
+			<itemData name="difflineadd" defStyleNum="dsOthers" backgroundColor="#e6ffed" />
 			<itemData name="strongemphasis" defStyleNum="dsNormal" italic="true" bold="true"/>
 			<itemData name="ruler" defStyleNum="dsNormal" color="#e200e2" bold="true" />
 			<itemData name="strikeout" defStyleNum="dsNormal" strikeOut="true" backgroundColor="#fafaaf" />
diff --git a/kate/data/update-files.xml b/kate/data/update-files.xml
index 6b2200e6c..12924302b 100644
--- a/kate/data/update-files.xml
+++ b/kate/data/update-files.xml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 <Definition name="Debian Changelog" url="http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/plain/kate/data/debianchangelog.xml" version="6"/>
 <Definition name="Debian Control" url="http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/plain/kate/data/debiancontrol.xml" version="0.84"/>
 <Definition name=".desktop" url="http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/plain/kate/data/desktop.xml" version="2-1"/>
-<Definition name="Diff" url="http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/plain/kate/data/diff.xml" version="1.12"/>
+<Definition name="Diff" url="http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/plain/kate/data/diff.xml" version="1.13"/>
 <Definition name="Django HTML Template" url="http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/plain/kate/data/djangotemplate.xml" version="3"/>
 <Definition name="Dockerfile" url="http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/plain/kate/data/dockerfile.xml" version="1.1"/>
 <Definition name="MS-DOS Batch" url="http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/plain/kate/data/dosbat.xml" version="0.30"/>