Release 20th of January 2026
20th January 2026
Digital Iceland continues to develop and improve digital solutions with regular updates on both core services and individual digital services. With the latest update we introduce both new functionality and additions and fixes aimed at increasing security, improving user experience and simplifying service processes for both individuals and companies.

Below we will review the main changes and innovations in this edition, both regarding the core services of Digital Iceland and specific projects.
Applications
Fixes
Registration of new property numbers
Support for users with large amount of properties.
Unemployment benefits application
Bug fixes for release
Citizenship
Increase lifetime of application
New Primary School
Implemented requested changes after MMS testing
Various applications
Migrate application templates from National Registry v2 to v3 API.
Rental agreement
fake phonenumbers allowed on dev
Inheritence report
Make real estate shares editable for the prefilled/initial real estate rows
Announcement of death
UI updates. Made radio button for „Knowledge of will“ more visible. All text fields are rich text. Pre-fill logged in user as an heir. Validation improvements.
Estate
Adds a new step for filling out notifier information. Same as is done in inheritance-report.
Prefill data for information on excisting will Split charge overview to separate screen
Application system
UX improvements and bug fixes, removal of old applications
Form builder
Application notifcations, filter and other minor changes
New
Milecar registration
New application to register milecars
My pages
Fixes
Various UI fixes
Law and order
My police cases: UI fixes (feature flag)
New
Health
Booked appointments: New feature questionnaires for my pages under health (feature flag)
Questionnaires: New feature booked appointments overview for my pages under health (feature flag)
User info
HMS rental agreements: New screens alongside updated client/domain (feature flag)
Ísland.is web
Fixes
Island UI - Mobile filter
New look for mobile filter
User notification
New
Major refactor of notification worker. Support sending notifications to actor profiles on behalf of companies. Support notifying a specific actor, controlled by a scope on the hnipp template.
Digital Mailbox
Fixes
Replace fetching logo by name and fetch by national ID instead
Fix bullets not displaying in HTML documents
Admin portal
Fixes
Service desk
Show both user notifications and actor notifications in service desk module
Authentication system
New
New authentications flow, users can now log in with scanning a QR code though the Auðkenningar app
Other
Fixes
Starfatorg
Starfatorg now uses new Elfur API to fetch job vacancies. Under useNewVacancyApi feature flag.
Add Address field to card
