# Farewell ST! **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [July 19, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/farewell-st/199810 "2020-07-19T11:37:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![JDRoberts](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/jdroberts/32/56577_2.png) [@JDRoberts](https://community.smartthings.com/u/JDRoberts)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/farewell-st/199810/4 "2020-07-20T19:44:31Z")
> [@niklasgu](#): > > I’m dreading the day when Samsung retires the classic app. I’ll jump ship if that ever happens. They have now announced the timeline for the retirement, “in a few months.“ > [@Announcement | Changes to our Legacy SmartThings Platform](https://community.smartthings.com/t/announcement-changes-to-our-legacy-smartthings-platform/197958/): > > Changes to the Legacy SmartThings Platform The explosive growth of our community and platform over the past few years has been an amazing experience for all of us at SmartThings. We have you to thank for building, innovating and growing with us as we push the envelope to what is possible in the connected home. Today, we wanted to let you know about the next evolution in our journey. We are making some important shifts in our strategy to best position our platform for the future and investing more deeply in improving the stability and security of our platform. With these changes, we will empower a broad ecosystem of developers to integrate and innovate with SmartThings using technologies of their choice. Over the course of the next several months, we plan to focus on the development of a … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.smartthings.com/t/farewell-st/199810)._