diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e3546ca5..0102437f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 - Performance problems with C# source code have been fixed, see #677 (@keith-hall)
 - Performance problems with Makefiles have been fixed, see #750 (@keith-hall)
 - Fig bux when highlighting Ruby files with unindented heredocs, see #914 (@keith-hall)
+- A highlighting problem with Rust source code has been fixed, see #924 (@keith-hall)
 
 ## Other
 
diff --git a/assets/patches/Rust.sublime-syntax.patch b/assets/patches/Rust.sublime-syntax.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3bd745e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/patches/Rust.sublime-syntax.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git syntaxes/01_Packages/Rust/Rust.sublime-syntax syntaxes/01_Packages/Rust/Rust.sublime-syntax
+index 3c354486..24727a4e 100644
+--- syntaxes/01_Packages/Rust/Rust.sublime-syntax
++++ syntaxes/01_Packages/Rust/Rust.sublime-syntax
+@@ -907,6 +907,8 @@ contexts:
+     - include: type-any-identifier
+     - match: ':'
+       scope: punctuation.separator.rust
++    - match: (?=;)
++      pop: true
+ 
+   fn-body:
+     - meta_scope: meta.function.rust
diff --git a/assets/syntaxes.bin b/assets/syntaxes.bin
index bd3cccfc..2931fdda 100644
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