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: