Version 5.1.0

September 1, 2026

Added

  • Beam temp files now live on Craft's temp asset upload filesystem, so exports work on Craft Cloud and other multi-instance hosts (#19)
  • Beam temp files can be cleared from Utilities → Caches and php craft clear-caches/beam-temp
  • Optional plugin setting to delete temp files after download (off by default)

Version 5.0.1

September 1, 2026

Added

  • Added support for multiple sheets in Excel (XLSX) exports
  • Added soft newline support in XLSX cells with automatic text wrapping

Fixed

  • Fixed a fatal error on PHP 8.2+ when exporting a file whose filename contains special characters (FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING was removed; getFilename() now uses FileHelper::sanitizeFilename()) (#25)

Version 5.0.0

April 23, 2024

Added

  • Craft 5 support

Version 3.0.0

October 3, 2022

Added

  • Craft 4 support
  • Support for formatting cell values

Fixed

  • Fixes PHP deprecation notice

Changed

  • Updated mk-j/php_xlsxwriter to ^0.38.0

Version 2.1.5

January 27, 2020

Added

  • Added BOM sequence to improve interoperability with programs interacting with CSV, like Microsoft Excel. (#13)

Version 2.1.4

June 6, 2019

Fixed

  • Fixed error when trying to download export for a user without access to the CP

Version 2.1.3

February 2, 2019

Added

  • Added route so Beam can be used in the control panel

Version 2.1.2

January 30, 2019

Fixed

  • Fixed exception when league/csv 8.x is installed

Version 2.1.1

January 5, 2019

Changed

  • Changed league/csv dependency to not conflict with Feed Me

Version 2.1.0

November 24, 2018

Added

  • Added an model and template methods to make it easier to add content and change config on the fly, in loops etc.

Changed

  • The template syntax is now more flexible and easier to work with (this is a breaking change)
  • Output will now be written to a temporary file, and the browser will redirect to another url for downloading. This gets rid of the problems with possible whitespace being included in the CSV.

Version 2.0.0

November 1, 2017

Added

  • Initial release