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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

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