generated: '2026-08-14'
method: searched
source: https://help.backstory.ai/en/articles/15252920-new-product-releases
url: https://help.backstory.ai/en/articles/15252920-new-product-releases
scheme: dated-product-release-notes
cadence: monthly
current_version: '2026-08'
note: >-
  Backstory keeps one rolling "New Product Releases" article in its help centre
  rather than a versioned API changelog. It records product changes, not contract
  changes, and only the current release is retained — there is no archive of
  prior releases to harvest, so the window below is genuinely everything the
  provider publishes.
entries:
- version: '2026-08'
  date: '2026-08'
  title: August 2026 release
  breaking: []
  additions:
  - name: My Meetings (Beta)
    detail: >-
      In-app view of upcoming and past meetings, combining calendar meetings,
      matched opportunities or accounts, participant details and Backstory's
      AI-generated summary. Off by default; access via CSM request.
  - name: Permission and Object Visibility Settings
    detail: >-
      Admins can separate access to configuration tools and team dashboards
      (Permission settings) from whose account and opportunity data a user can
      see (Object Visibility settings). This is the control that also governs
      what an MCP-connected AI client can read.
  - name: Forecast Submission Field Defaults
    detail: >-
      Administrators choose whether new forecast submissions pre-populate from
      the latest rolled-up pipeline values or the user's previous submission.
  - name: Pipeline Changes View
    detail: >-
      Waterfall Charts renamed to Pipeline Changes and opened to all Forecasting
      users including sales representatives; previously manager-only.
  - name: Weekly Forecast Trends Email (Beta)
    detail: Opt-in weekly email showing how a recipient's forecast moved week over week.
  - name: Fiscal Year View (Beta)
    detail: Forecasts can display by fiscal year instead of by quarter.
  changes:
  - name: MCP Authentication Update
    detail: >-
      Backstory MCP no longer requires Salesforce credentials. Users authenticate
      with their Backstory credentials, which makes the MCP server usable by
      customers running a CRM other than Salesforce.
    affects: mcp/backstory-mcp.yml
related:
  status_page: https://status.backstory.ai/
  mcp_collection: https://help.backstory.ai/en/collections/19658946-mcp