Iris 156.0.8078.11-2 (Chromium 156)

New: Iris hardening page

Settings → Privacy and security → Iris hardening: all of Iris’s own switches in one place, grouped as Ads and trackers, Web content, Fingerprinting, Network, Data and Address bar. On Android they’re grouped the same way in Privacy and security.
New switches, all off by default:
Web content: turn JavaScript off, turn off service workers, turn WebGL off completely, block fonts downloaded by websites, block autoplaying media, faster JavaScript (JIT) on every site.
Fingerprinting and privacy: coarser timers, UTC and US English for websites, don’t send referrers.
Network: turn off QUIC (HTTP/3).
Data: keep the cache in memory only, clear browsing data when Iris closes, clear copied text after 30 seconds, ask before every download.
Desktop only: turn off extensions, hide the Install button.
Block ads and trackers is now a switch (on by default).
Block more ads and trackers (off by default): adds the StevenBlack, HaGeZi Pro, AdGuard DNS and URLhaus lists. They’re built into Iris, nothing is downloaded.

On for everyone

SharedArrayBuffer is off.
No crash dumps are written to disk.
New extensions only run on a site after you click them.

Desktop look

New traffic-light window buttons, on by default. Colours and the hover symbols can be changed in Settings → Appearance, and you can switch back to the standard buttons.
New see-through window (glass) in Appearance, with an opacity slider (off by default). It covers the title bar, tabs, toolbar and Iris’s own pages. Websites stay solid.
The old “Glass look” is now called Frosted pages and is off by default.
The default theme is now light, with Monokai Pro Light. Catppuccin Mocha is still the default in dark mode.
The Google Advanced Protection Program link is gone from the Security page.

DNS and search

Added encrypted DNS providers: AdGuard (two), Control D (two), Applied Privacy, Digitale Gesellschaft and Wikimedia DNS. DNS.SB is removed.
The search list is now 20 engines, all reachable over TLS 1.3. DuckDuckGo Lite is new. OceanHero, Karma, WWF Panda, Lilo, Quendu, Info.com, PrivacyWall, Freespoke and Yep are removed.

Android

Blocked pop-ups now offer Allow once, or Always allow for this site in the gear menu. Pop-ups stay blocked by default.
New tabs no longer show the Chromium logo.

Snap

Media keys use the name iris-browser.

Install

sudo apt install ./iris-browser-stable_156.0.8078.11-2_amd64.deb

The snap and the Android APK are attached too. To verify the downloads, see the README. SHA256SUMS is signed with ML-DSA-87 and Ed25519, and the APK is signed with its own key.