• Worksheet.writeRow(row, values, {startCol, format, dateFormat}) writes a whole row and dispatches each value by its runtime type: String, int/double, bool, DateTime and null map to the right cell type, so a report that is a list per row needs one call instead of picking a write... per column. A DateTime needs a dateFormat and an unsupported type is an ArgumentError naming the column, rather than a silent coercion. Verified by writing a mixed row and reading every cell back with an independent reader.
• Show the memory argument on its own. The benchmark compared one size against a competitor; the new curve measures peak memory at 10k, 100k and 1M rows and shows constant-memory mode holding ~191 MiB flat while the in-memory default climbs to 1433 MiB at a million rows. That flat curve is the reason the mode exists, and it was asserted in prose before, not shown.

• Benchmark against excel_community, not just excel. The chart and the table compared only against excel, which has had no release since August 2024, and claimed "about five times faster". Against the maintained fork the honest figures are 3.2x less memory and 1.7x faster: memory is the real argument and throughput is close enough that it should not decide anything. All four numbers re-measured in one sitting on one machine.
• Say so in the README, and point readers who need to read spreadsheets at excel_community rather than the unmaintained excel.

• Widen the native-toolchain constraints so the package can be installed in a Flutter app at all. hooks 2.1.0 and native_toolchain_c 0.19.3 raised their meta floor to ^1.19.0, and Flutter's SDK pins meta to 1.17.0, so flutter pub add failed at version solving with "flutter from sdk is incompatible". Allowing hooks >=2.0.2 and native_toolchain_c >=0.19.2 lets the solver pick a version that works with the pinned meta, while a pure-Dart project still resolves to the newest. No API or behaviour change.

• Shorten the screenshot description. pub.dev accepts up to 200 characters but scores only those under 160, so the previous release published cleanly and quietly gave up the documentation points it was meant to earn.

• Declare the benchmark chart in pubspec.yaml so pub.dev renders it on the package page. The chart was already in the repository and the README, but pub.dev shows only what the screenshots: field points at, so the page a reader lands on from search opened with text where the measurement should have been.

• Add charts. Workbook.addChart(ChartType) creates a column, bar, line, area, pie, doughnut, scatter, or radar chart; Chart.addSeries plots cell ranges, with setTitle and setAxisNames for labels; Worksheet.insertChart places it on a sheet with optional scaling. The pure-Dart excel and spreadsheet_decoder packages can't write charts, so this is the reason to use a native writer when a report needs one. Charts are wired through the C shim, which is compiled from vendored source, so there is no new binary to install.

• Add Workbook.toBytes: build a workbook and get its .xlsx bytes back with no file left on disk, for serving a generated spreadsheet straight from a request handler. It stages a temporary file, reads it back, and removes it. Supports constant-memory mode via constantMemory: true.

• Add Worksheet.addTable, which wraps a cell range in an Excel table with banded rows, per-column autofilter, and a name usable in formulas. Pass the column names through columns; they are written into the header row. The autofilter, bandedRows, bandedColumns and totalRow options toggle the matching table features.

Changelog #

• Move the vendored third-party attributions out of LICENSE into THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, so LICENSE is the plain MIT text that automated license detection recognises. The attributions themselves are unchanged and still ship with the package.

First release. A native .xlsx writer for Dart, binding libxlsxwriter 1.2.2 over FFI, with libxlsxwriter and zlib 1.3.1 vendored and compiled from source at build time (no system dependencies on macOS, Linux, or Windows).

• Workbook and Workbook.constantMemory for in-memory and constant-memory writing, with a NativeFinalizer so a forgotten workbook is freed.
• Worksheet writes: writeString, writeNumber, writeBool, writeFormula, writeDateTime, writeUrl, writeBlank.
• Layout: setColumn, setColumnWidth, setRow, mergeRange, freezePanes.
• Format with bold, italic, underline, fontName, fontSize, fontColor, backgroundColor, numberFormat, align, verticalAlign, textWrap, border, and borderColor.
• libxlsxwriter error codes surfaced as XlsxWriterException with the human-readable message.