Roo Code 3.48.0: browser use and built-in skills removed, Sonnet 4.6 support added

Models and providers

• Claude Sonnet 4.6 across Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway
• GLM-5 added to the Z.ai provider
• 9 low-usage providers removed, with a retired-provider UX added
• Gemini thinkingLevel validated against model capabilities; empty streams handled

Removals / renames (breaking)

• browser use removed entirely
• built-in skills and the built-in skills mechanism removed
• footgun prompting (file-based system prompt override) removed
• search_and_replace renamed to edit, edit-family UI unified

Features

• lock toggle pins API config across all modes in a workspace
• new disabledTools setting to globally disable native tools
• nested subtasks rendered as a recursive tree in history
• consecutive tool calls batched in the chat UI
• IPC query handlers for commands, modes and models

CLI

• stdin stream mode added
• auto-approve is now the default, with a require-approval opt-in
• default model moved from Opus 4.5 to Opus 4.6
• linux-arm64 support; CLI releases v0.0.51 through v0.0.54

Fixes

• parent task state loss during orchestrator delegation, plus new_task delegation race that dropped parent history
• taskHistory writes serialized; delegation status overwrite race fixed
• removeClineFromStack() made delegation-aware to avoid orphaned parent tasks
• chat history loss during cloud/settings navigation; condensation summary preserved on task resume
• chat scroll anchoring and task-switch scroll races; pasted images preserved in the chatbox
• command auto-approval hardened against inline JS and zsh process-substitution false positives
• auto-approval timeout cancelled when auto-approve is toggled off mid-countdown
• double notification sound; false unsaved-changes prompt with OpenAI Compatible headers
• follow_up param validation in AskFollowupQuestionTool; webview postMessage crashes and idempotent dispose
• core.worktree comparison canonicalized to fix Windows path mismatches; tab close made best-effort in DiffViewProvider.open
• defaultTemperature now required in getModelParams to stop silent temperature overrides