Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

Looks like fixing bug#45341 introduced a regression WRT bug#44568:
font lock of assignments with type hints

Load the code below or see  "var3: Mapping" in center of attached png

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

In your .png, var1: wasn't getting the correct highlighting, but it
seems like that's fixed now:

But var3: is still odd?

Yes, exists in Emacs 29.0.50 from 2022-06-04.

I've added Dario to the CCs; perhaps he has some comments.