diff --git a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/bash.xml b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/bash.xml
index 2e362f9e5cf..11019ea6227 100644
--- a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/bash.xml
+++ b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/bash.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
         <!ENTITY noword   "(?![\w$+-])">                <!-- no word, $, + or - following -->
         <!ENTITY pathpart "([\w_@.&#37;*?+-]|\\ )">     <!-- valid character in a file name -->
 ]>
-<language name="Bash" version="4" kateversion="5.0" section="Scripts" extensions="*.sh;*.bash;*.ebuild;*.eclass;*.nix;.bashrc;.bash_profile;.bash_login;.profile" mimetype="application/x-shellscript" casesensitive="1" author="Wilbert Berendsen (wilbert@kde.nl)" license="LGPL">
+<language name="Bash" version="6" kateversion="5.0" section="Scripts" extensions="*.sh;*.bash;*.ebuild;*.eclass;*.nix;.bashrc;.bash_profile;.bash_login;.profile;PKGBUILD" mimetype="application/x-shellscript" casesensitive="1" author="Wilbert Berendsen (wilbert@kde.nl)" license="LGPL">
 
 <!-- (c) 2004 by Wilbert Berendsen (wilbert@kde.nl)
     Changes by Matthew Woehlke (mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net)
@@ -626,8 +626,8 @@
 
       <!-- FindStrings looks for single and double quoted strings, also with $-prefix -->
       <context attribute="Normal Text" lineEndContext="#stay" name="FindStrings">
-        <Detect2Chars attribute="Escape" context="#stay" char="\\" char1="'" />
-        <Detect2Chars attribute="Escape" context="#stay" char="\\" char1="&quot;" />
+        <Detect2Chars attribute="Escape" context="#stay" char="\" char1="'" />
+        <Detect2Chars attribute="Escape" context="#stay" char="\" char1="&quot;" />
         <DetectChar attribute="String SingleQ" context="StringSQ" char="'" />
         <DetectChar attribute="String DoubleQ" context="StringDQ" char="&quot;" />
         <Detect2Chars attribute="String SingleQ" context="StringEsc" char="$" char1="'" />
diff --git a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/css.xml b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/css.xml
index aa2fe9264b1..3300222e172 100644
--- a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/css.xml
+++ b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/css.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Changelog:
 
 -->
 
-<language name="CSS" version="4" kateversion="5.0" section="Markup" extensions="*.css" indenter="cstyle" mimetype="text/css" author="Wilbert Berendsen (wilbert@kde.nl)" license="LGPL" priority="10">
+<language name="CSS" version="6" kateversion="5.0" section="Markup" extensions="*.css" indenter="cstyle" mimetype="text/css" author="Wilbert Berendsen (wilbert@kde.nl)" license="LGPL" priority="10">
 
     <highlighting>
         <list name="properties">
@@ -835,11 +835,6 @@ Changelog:
             <item>tv</item>
         </list>
 
-        <list name="mediatypes_op">
-            <item>not</item>
-            <item>only</item>
-        </list>
-
         <list name="media_features">
             <item>width</item>
             <item>min-width</item>
@@ -1047,7 +1042,6 @@ Changelog:
             <itemData name="Selector Pseudo" defStyleNum="dsInformation" italic="1" spellChecking="false"/>
             <itemData name="Comment" defStyleNum="dsComment" />
             <itemData name="Region Marker" defStyleNum="dsRegionMarker" spellChecking="false"/>
-            <itemData name="Alert" defStyleNum="dsAlert" spellChecking="false"/>
             <itemData name="Error" defStyleNum="dsError" spellChecking="false"/>
         </itemDatas>
     </highlighting>
diff --git a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/doxygen.xml b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/doxygen.xml
index a1bbe70cff7..99b1d79c02d 100644
--- a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/doxygen.xml
+++ b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/doxygen.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <!ENTITY wordsep "([][,?;()]|\.$|\.?\s)">     <!-- things that end a TagWord -->
 ]>
 <language name="Doxygen"
-          version="4"
+          version="5"
           kateversion="5.0"
           section="Markup"
           extensions="*.dox;*.doxygen"
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
       </context>
       <context name="ML_identifiers" attribute="Identifier" lineEndContext="#stay">
         <Detect2Chars attribute="Comment" context="#pop" char="*" char1="/" lookAhead="true" />
-        <RegExpr attribute="String" context="#pop" String="\s*#?[a-zA-Z0-9]*" />
+        <RegExpr attribute="Identifier" context="#pop" String="\s*#?[a-zA-Z0-9]*" />
         <DetectChar attribute="Types" context="ML_types1" char="'" />
         <DetectChar attribute="Types" context="ML_types2" char="&quot;" />
       </context>
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@
         <StringDetect attribute="HTML Comment" context="#pop" String="--&gt;" />
       </context>
       <context name="SL_identifiers" attribute="Identifier" lineEndContext="#pop">
-        <RegExpr attribute="String" context="#pop" String="\s*#?[a-zA-Z0-9]*" />
+        <RegExpr attribute="Identifier" context="#pop" String="\s*#?[a-zA-Z0-9]*" />
         <DetectChar attribute="Types" context="SL_types1" char="'" />
         <DetectChar attribute="Types" context="SL_types2" char="&quot;" />
       </context>
diff --git a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/java.xml b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/java.xml
index 6e0bfeed95d..7e223ea28b6 100644
--- a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/java.xml
+++ b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/java.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE language SYSTEM "language.dtd">
-<language name="Java" version="2" kateversion="5.0" section="Sources" extensions="*.java" mimetype="text/x-java" license="LGPL" author="Alfredo Luiz Foltran Fialho (alfoltran@ig.com.br)">
+<language name="Java" version="3" kateversion="5.0" section="Sources" extensions="*.java" mimetype="text/x-java" license="LGPL" author="Alfredo Luiz Foltran Fialho (alfoltran@ig.com.br)">
 	<highlighting>
 		<list name="java15">
 			<item>ACTIVE</item>
@@ -3801,7 +3801,7 @@
 				<DetectChar attribute="Symbol" context="Printf" char="("/>
 				<DetectSpaces attribute="Normal Text" context="#stay"/>
 			</context>
-			<context attribute="Printf" lineEndContext="#stay" name="Printf">
+			<context attribute="Normal Text" lineEndContext="#stay" name="Printf">
 				<DetectChar attribute="String" context="PrintfString" char="&quot;"/>
 				<IncludeRules context="InFunctionCall"/>
 			</context>
diff --git a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/makefile.xml b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/makefile.xml
index 136374b80ca..6067a2470f5 100644
--- a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/makefile.xml
+++ b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/makefile.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 <!-- v4 by Alex Richardson <arichardson.kde@gmail.com>
      added bmake support -->
 <language name="Makefile" section="Other"
-          version="5" kateversion="3.4"
+          version="7" kateversion="3.4"
           extensions="GNUmakefile;Makefile;makefile;GNUmakefile.*;Makefile.*;makefile.*;*.mk"
           mimetype="text/x-makefile" priority="11"
           author="Per Wigren (wigren@home.se)" license="">
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
 
         <keyword attribute="Keyword"  context="#stay" String="keywords"/>
         <keyword attribute="Keyword"  context="bmake_other_stmts" String="bmake_other_stmts" firstNonSpace="true"/>
-        <RegExpr attribute="Variable" context="assign" String="[^\s:?]*\s*(?=:=|=|\+=|\?=)"/>
+        <RegExpr attribute="Variable" context="assign" String="[^\s+:?+]*\s*(?=:=|=|\+=|\?=)"/>
         <keyword attribute="SpecialTarget" context="bmake_special_target" String="bmake_special_targets" firstNonSpace="true"/>
         <RegExpr attribute="SpecialTarget" context="prereq" String="\.PATH\.[^:]*:" firstNonSpace="true"/>
         <keyword attribute="Keyword" context="bmake_include" String="bmake_include_stmt" firstNonSpace="true"/>
@@ -433,8 +433,6 @@
           c is omitted, then no separator is used.  The common escapes
           (including octal numeric codes), work as expected. -->
         <Detect2Chars attribute="Builtin" context="#pop!bmake_var_modifier_arg" char="t" char1="s"/>
-        <RegExpr String=""/>
-
 
         <IncludeRules context="bmake_var_modifier_arg"/>
       </context>
diff --git a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/perl.xml b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/perl.xml
index 5b4b85bbe4c..f3786c40b57 100644
--- a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/perl.xml
+++ b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/perl.xml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
    Enhance tr/// and y/// support.
 -->
-<language name="Perl" version="4" kateversion="2.4" section="Scripts" extensions="*.pl;*.PL;*.pm" mimetype="application/x-perl;text/x-perl" priority="5" author="Anders Lund (anders@alweb.dk)" license="LGPLv2">
+<language name="Perl" version="5" kateversion="2.4" section="Scripts" extensions="*.pl;*.PL;*.pm" mimetype="application/x-perl;text/x-perl" priority="5" author="Anders Lund (anders@alweb.dk)" license="LGPLv2">
   <highlighting>
     <list name="keywords">
       <item>if</item>
@@ -760,10 +760,6 @@
         <RegExpr attribute="Pod" context="pod" String="\=(?:head[1-6]|over|back|item|for|begin|end|pod)\s+.*" column="0" beginRegion="POD"/>
         <StringDetect attribute="Keyword" context="normal" String="__END__" firstNonSpace="true" />
       </context>
-      <context name="end_handle" attribute="Nothing" lineEndContext="#stay">
-        <RegExpr attribute="Pod" context="pod" String="^\=(?:head[1-6]|over|back|item|for|begin|end|pod)\s*.*"/>
-        <StringDetect attribute="Keyword" context="data_handle" String="__DATA__" firstNonSpace="true" />
-      </context>
 
       <context name="Backticked" attribute="String (interpolated)" lineEndContext="#stay">
         <IncludeRules context="ipstring_internal"/>
@@ -776,10 +772,6 @@
         <keyword attribute="Keyword" context="#pop" String="keywords" /><!-- wonder why??? -->
       </context>
 
-      <context name="package_qualified_blank" attribute="Normal Text" lineEndContext="#stay">
-        <RegExpr attribute="Normal Text" context="#pop" String="[\w_]+" />
-      </context>
-
       <context name="sub_name_def" attribute="Normal Text" lineEndContext="#pop" fallthrough="true" fallthroughContext="#pop">
         <RegExpr attribute="Function" context="#stay" String="\w+" />
         <RegExpr attribute="Normal Text" context="find_variable" String="\$\S" lookAhead="true" />
@@ -829,7 +821,6 @@
       <itemData name="Data"                      defStyleNum="dsNormal" />
       <itemData name="Comment"                   defStyleNum="dsComment" />
       <itemData name="Pod"                       defStyleNum="dsComment" />
-      <itemData name="Nothing"                   defStyleNum="dsComment" />
     </itemDatas>
   </highlighting>
   <general>
diff --git a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/ruby.xml b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/ruby.xml
index f1ccdc17028..409fcf60cb0 100644
--- a/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/ruby.xml
+++ b/src/share/3rdparty/generic-highlighter/ruby.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
 <!-- Hold the "language" opening tag on a single line, as mentioned in "language.dtd". -->
 <language name="Ruby" section="Scripts"
-	  version="4" kateversion="3.3"
+	  version="8" kateversion="3.3"
 	  extensions="*.rb;*.rjs;*.rxml;*.xml.erb;*.js.erb;*.rake;Rakefile;Gemfile;*.gemspec;Vagrantfile"
 	  mimetype="application/x-ruby"
 	  style="ruby" indenter="ruby"
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
 						Match them before $_.
 				-->
 				<RegExpr attribute="Global Variable" String="\$[a-zA-Z_0-9]+" context="check_div_1"/>
-				<RegExpr attribute="Global Variable" String="\$\-[a-zA-z_]\b" context="check_div_1"/>
+				<RegExpr attribute="Global Variable" String="\$\-[a-zA-Z_]\b" context="check_div_1"/>
 				<!-- special-character globals -->
 				<RegExpr attribute="Default globals" String="\$[\d_*`+@;,.~=\!\$:?'/\\\-\&amp;&quot;&gt;&lt;]" context="check_div_1"/>
 				<RegExpr attribute="Global Constant" String="\b[_A-Z]+[A-Z_0-9]+\b" context="check_div_2"/>
@@ -428,17 +428,10 @@
 				<RegExpr attribute="Member" String="\W" context="#pop"/>
 			</context>
 
-			<context name="Comment Line" attribute="Comment" lineEndContext="#pop">
-				<RegExpr attribute="Comment" String="\w\:\:\s" context="RDoc Label"/>
-				<IncludeRules context="##Alerts" />
-			</context>
-
 			<context name="General Comment" attribute="Comment" lineEndContext="#pop">
 				<IncludeRules context="##Alerts" />
 			</context>
 
-			<context name="RDoc Label" attribute="RDoc Value" lineEndContext="#pop"/>
-
 			<!-- HEREDOC support
 				The contexts below support both normal and indented heredocs
 			 -->
@@ -902,16 +895,10 @@
 
 			<itemData name="Comment" defStyleNum="dsComment"/>
 			<itemData name="Blockcomment" defStyleNum="dsComment"/>
-			<itemData name="Region Marker" defStyleNum="dsNormal" color="#0000ff"/>
-			<itemData name="RDoc Value" defStyleNum="dsOthers"/>
 
 			<itemData name="Here Document" defStyleNum="dsOthers"/>
 
-			<!-- use these to mark errors and alerts things -->
-			<itemData name="Error" defStyleNum="dsError" />
-
 			<itemData name="Delimiter" defStyleNum="dsNormal" color="#FF9FEC"/>
-			<itemData name="Expression" defStyleNum="dsOthers"/>
 			<itemData name="Operator" defStyleNum="dsNormal" color="#FF9FEC"/>
 		</itemDatas>
 	</highlighting>