As you can read in the [official Creator 4.9.0 release announcement](https://blog.qt.io/blog/2019/04/15/qt-creator-4-9-0-released/), Qt Creator now uses the [KSyntaxHighlighting Framework](https://api.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/html/index.html) for providing the [generic highlighting](https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-highlighting.html#generic-highlighting).
This is a nice step for the wider adoption of this [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) licensed part of the [KDE Frameworks](https://api.kde.org/frameworks/index.html).
And this is not just an one-way consumption of our work.
The framework got actively patches back that make it more usable for other consumers, too, like [Kate](https://kate-editor.org) ;=)
If you want concrete examples, take a look at:
* D18982: [prevent assertion in regex load](https://phabricator.kde.org/D18982)
* D18996: [Fix building with namespaced Qt](https://phabricator.kde.org/D18996)
* D18997: [Add functions returning all definitions for a mimetype or file name](https://phabricator.kde.org/D18997)
* D19200: [Return sorted definitions for file names and mime types](https://phabricator.kde.org/D19200)
