10th Gen and Older Intel Processor Graphics Moving to Legacy Support

From employee Gabriela_Intel's 27-Jul-2022 announcement Graphics Driver Support Update for 10th Generation and Older Intel Processor Graphics in the Intel Graphics board:

As of July 27th, 2022, Intel will be moving 6th - 10th Gen Intel Processor Graphics and related Intel Atom®, Pentium®, and Celeron® processor graphics to a legacy software support model. Intel will provide software support for affected products on critical fixes and security vulnerabilities only. Software updates for these products will move to a quarterly release cadence or with software releases as needed.

The following product families are impacted by this transition:  Codenames: Skylake, Apollo Lake, Kaby Lake, Amber Lake, Coffee Lake, Whiskey Lake, Comet Lake, Gemini Lake, Ice Lake, Lakefield, Jasper Lake, Elkhart Lake. ...

My Dell Inspiron 5584 has an 8th Gen i5-8265U CPU (code name Whiskey Lake) and an Intel UHD Graphics 620 GPU so I appear to be affected by this change.  If I understand correctly, my last "regular" graphics driver update was v31.0.101.2111 (rel. 26-Jul-2022 - see the results below from my Intel Driver & Support Assistant scan I ran today) and my graphics driver will only receive critical updates going forward.  Note that I did not install that v31.0.101.2111 graphics driver today since I normally use the driver recommended by Dell on the support page for my Inspiron 5584.  

Kudos to Alex5723 for posting about this today in the AskWoody.com thread Intel Drops Support for 10th Generation and Older Intel Processor Graphics.
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64-bit Win 10 Pro v21H2 build 19044.1826 * Firefox v103.0.0 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.2205.7-1.1.19400.3 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.5.11.202-1.0.1716 * Intel Driver & Support Assistant v22.4.26.9
Dell Inspiron 15 5584, Intel i5-8265U CPU, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB Toshiba NVMe SSD, Intel UHD Graphics 620

Getting ahead of the continuing CPU on die data leaks is one thing, an old fashioned money grab is another. This is the latter at its finest. Great information nevertheless. My CPU shown below, not using Intel Graphics, opted for a PCI-e Nvidia card. 

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